In: Nursing
A 62year old,female is admitted to the emergency room and diagnosed with DVT.
Body weight :183lb
=83.082kg
When rounding off to nearest tenth,body weight =83.1kg
Heparin dose ordered is 70units/kg
Total heaprin dose per total body weight=5800units of heparin.
Available concentration of heparin us 1000unuts/ml
The nurse has to withdraw to 5.8ml of heparin injection to administer a bolus dose 5800units.
Patients body weight:74kg
Dose:5mcg/kg/min
Drug concentration:200mcg of dopamin
Conversion 200mg in to mcg
That is 200000mcg of dopamin
Drug volume is 250ml
Calculating flow rate (ml/hr):
Dose× body weight × total volume × time in min
-----------------------------------------------------------
Amount of drug
=27.75ml/hr
Rounding off to nearest whole number,that is 28
Flow rate(ml/hr)=28ml/hr