The Monofer Dosing Calculator by Pharmacosmos A/S allows health care professionals to easily identify the successful strategy for treating your patients' iron deficiency anaemia in one visit with Monofer.

The clinical objective when treating iron deficiency anaemia is expressed as the target Hb increase, that is the difference between the target Hb level and a patient's actual Hb level

The dosing calculator allows you to set the units for Hb that are being used in your clinical practice (g/dl, g/l or mmol/l).

The second important parameter for calculating a patient's iron need is the body weight (kg). Please note that the ideal body weight or pre-pregnancy weight should be used. The body weight is used to assess the iron dose/body weight (mg/kg) ratio.

With its widest accepted dose range and no test dose requirement, Monofer allows dosing of up to 20 mg iron/kg in maximum one hour - and thus the possibility to offer high dose iron for more patients. Importantly, these treatment options apply to Monofer infusion, only. You should therefore carefully study the SPC if considering any other IV iron perparation.

The iron deficit and recommended iron dose is calculated using the Ganzoni formula.

Note that the Ganzoni equation assumes the need for 500 mg iron for repletion of iron stores for patients weighing ≥ 35 kg.

Ability to apply special clinical conditions

The dosing calculator also allows you to apply special clinical restrictions expressed as either mg iron/kg body weight or maximum total mg iron. Illustrating the difference between possible clinical restrictions compared to high dose iron in one visit, it may help assess the number of your patients that can achieve full iron correction with Monofer.