Paediatric prescribing and dosing practice

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You are the evening intern on a paediatric ward. The consultant asks you to chart an oral medicine you have not prescribed before for a 3-year-old girl weighing 14 kg. The Australian Medicines Handbook monograph you have opened gives an adult dose only, and there is no ward protocol for this drug. Pharmacy is closed and the first dose is due within the hour. Which one of the following should you do?