We have a section on this coming up on our next exam, so I'm studying like a madwoman. Anyway, I wondered if anyone could help with the below problem. I can't figure it out for the life of me:
Your patient is receiving a unit of blood. The pump is set at 125 and there is 450 ml left to infuse. How long will it take to infuse?
I get the answer based on 450ml / 125ml = 3.6 hours, but the answer says 3 hours, 36 minutes. Can someone explain how the .6 equals 36 minutes, because I DON'T get it. Unless there is more to the problem than just division, which very well could be.
As a side note, what formula is everyone using for calculating IV flow rates? I know I used a different formula for med dosage calculation than my instructors did, so I could NOT watch when they taught stuff like that in class, or it screwed up my way of doing it (Dimensional Analysis method). I hate that there are so many ways of doing it. One poor woman in our class was in TEARS because she was getting so confused with it. But of course, it is so, so important to know at least ONE of the methods cold.
