[SoulShine75]

I know I learned this in school, but when I was on the floor it confused me for some reason. I had a bag of Zosen that was 100ml and it said to infuse over 30 minutes so I set the pump to admin 100ml (RTBI) at a rate of 100. I understand the amt to be infused, but why was it infused at 100? I guess it threw me off and I'm not getting it something. Help please.

[SoulShine75]

I know I learned this in school, but when I was on the floor it confused me for some reason. I had a bag of Zosen that was 100ml and it said to infuse over 30 minutes so I set the pump to admin 100ml (RTBI) at a rate of 100. I understand the amt to be infused, but I was told to set the rate at 100? Why 100? What am I missing here? Help please.

[onyx77]

If you are administering 100ml in 30min the pump should be set to 200ml per hr. That's 100ml in 30min. I had the same problem at clinicals once and will never forget it because I had the biggest brain-fart infront of the pt's family! Embarassing, but I will never forget!

[SoulShine75]

Originally Posted by onyx77

If you are administering 100ml in 30min the pump should be set to 200ml per hr. That's 100ml in 30min. I had the same problem at clinicals once and will never forget it because I had the biggest brain-fart infront of the pt's family! Embarassing, but I will never forget!

The thing is she told me to set the rate at 100, not 200. I don't get it.

[SoulShine75]

[Bonny619]

Sounds like SHE was wrong.

[onyx77]

Was this your instructor or an RN that you were following? It certainly doesn't make sense to set the rate at 100. I would've been just as confused as you especially if it was ordered to infuse over 30 min.

[SoulShine75]

Originally Posted by onyx77

Was this your instructor or an RN that you were following? It certainly doesn't make sense to set the rate at 100. I would've been just as confused as you especially if it was ordered to infuse over 30 min.

It was the RN.

[jmgrn65]

you set it at a rate of 100 and total amt of 100ml. that will run in a hour. If you wanted the zosyn to run in an half hour than it should have been run in at 200. However in my facility I believe zosyn is a 50ml bag so then you would set the rate at 100cc hour and total infused would be 50.

[traumaRUs]

I'm going to merge these two threads...