A client returns from the PACU with a bag of IV fluids that has 630 mL remaining in the 1,000 mL bag. The prescription reads, "Continue the present IV over the next 7 hours." The IV administration set delivers 10 gtt/mL. The nurse should regulate the infusion to deliver how many drops/minute to accomplish the new prescription?
The Correct Answer is ["15"]
To find out how many drops/minute the nurse should regulate the infusion to, we need to first calculate how many mL/minute the infusion should deliver.
To do this, we need to divide the remaining volume of IV fluids by the number of hours that it should last. Since there are 60 minutes in an hour, we can convert the number of hours to minutes by multiplying it by 60.
Therefore, the number of minutes that the IV fluids should last is 7 x 60 = 420 minutes. Now, we can divide the remaining volume of IV fluids by this number to get the infusion rate in mL/minute. The result is 630 / 420 = 1.5 mL/minute.
Next, we need to multiply this infusion rate by the number of drops per mL that the IV administration set delivers. Since the IV administration set delivers 10 gtt/mL, we can multiply 1.5 mL/minute by 10 gtt/mL to get the infusion rate in drops/minute. The result is 1.5 x 10 = 15 gtt/minute.
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Correct Answer is ["21"]
Explanation
To answer this question, we need to use the formula:
gtt/minute = (Volume in mL x Drop factor in gtt/mL) / Time in minutes gtt/minute = (500 x 10) / 240
gtt/minute = 5000 / 240
gtt/minute = 20.833
Rounding to the nearest whole number, we get:
gtt/minute = 21
Therefore, the nurse should regulate the infusion to deliver 21 gtt/minute.
Correct Answer is ["798"]
Explanation
First, we have to convert 44 ponds to kgs = 44/ 2.205
= 19.958 kgs
Then, we calculate the mg to be administered by multiplying the above with 40 = 40 x 19.958
= 798.32
= 798 mg (rounded off to the nearest whole number)
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