Hi folks,
basically I have a two part question from the book How to Master Nursing Calculations, which I can do the first part but can not get my head around they author has arrived set the answer for the second.
"10ml of sterile water is added to a vial containing 500mg of clarithromycin (Klaricid®). What is a) the concentration of the reconstituted drug in mg/ml? And b) the approximate concentration of the infusion fluid in mg/ml if the 10ml solution is added to a 250ml bag of 5% glucose."
Litle bit of background.
I haven't started my first year yet, I start in September, but it's been a while since I've been in education, so I got this book to refine my mathematics, which it has helped tremulously, along with a few other to help prepare me for uni. I've slowly been working my way through the tests and am dedicated to not moving on to the next section until I get 100% of the current sections correct or at least understand how the answer was obtained.
Part a I understand to be 500mg/10ml= 50mg/ml the book says this is correct and I'm happy I understand this part.
Part b be confuses me. Surely the total volume of the bag would be 260ml, but I'm not sure if to include the 5% glucose which I think means 5g/100ml.
I know now some questions add extra info to trip the student up and this one seems to do it job.
Thanks in advance
Andy