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Understood — but if the banner weight were tied to the monitoring weight, every minor weight change (every 12 or 24 hours) would force a full re-evaluation of medications. A few examples:

• An oral capsule rounded to 1 from a 0.9 calculation would need to be manually re-rounded each time monitoring weight is entered.

• An injection calculating to 3.36 mL gets rounded to 3.3 or 3.4 mL — any minor weight adjustment would trigger a recalculation and re-round.

• With the new fluid calculation defaulting to a rate of 0, fluids would reset to 0 every time a new monitoring weight is recorded.

This is why the weights are intentionally split — it gives the end user control over when dosing is recalculated rather than having it happen automatically with every monitoring entry.

Yes, but we want the calculations to be based on the most recent weight!

I agree with this wholeheartedly. The updated weights should be what we use for our drug calculations, and it is very redundant to have to put them in two different areas. It would also be amazing if we had an ideal drug dosing weight category as well for our obese patients. I.e dose a 9kg cat for 7kg medications instead of making it look like it is the actual cats weight to get dosing.

The two weight areas serve different purposes. We will not change this feature. The weight in the treatment sheet is for monitoring. The weight in the main banner calculates medications to be given.