Dosage Calculation, need help please.

[deemarys]

a client isadmitted to the hospital with lower gi bleeding. his hemoglobin level on admission to the emergencyroom is 7.3g/dl. the physician orders 2 units of packed redblood cells to infuse over 1 hour each. the blood administration set has a drip factor of 10 gtt/ml. what is the flow rate in drops per minute? round answer to the nearest whole number.________gtt/minute

[deemarys]

a client isadmitted to the hospital with lower gi bleeding. his hemoglobin level on admission to the emergencyroom is 7.3g/dl. the physician orders 2 units of packed redblood cells to infuse over 1 hour each. the blood administration set has a drip factor of 10 gtt/ml. what is the flow rate in drops per minute? round answer to the nearest whole number.________gtt/minute

figured it out on my own, in case anyone wants to know how i got my answer here is what i did.

1 unit of blood is 250 mls. 250ml divided by 60 minutes(1 hour) equals 4.16

4.16 multiplied by drip factor 10 equals 41.6. make it a whole number answer is 42 gtt/minute.

[CrazierThanYou]

I got the same thing!

[nurseprnRN, BSN, RN]

good thinking. i love it when somebody reasons out how to solve a problem like this instead of just flailing around using a half-misremembered formula. this proclivity will serve you well all your days.:yeah:

[Annachu512, BSN, RN]

good thinking. i love it when somebody reasons out how to solve a problem like this instead of just flailing around using a half-misremembered formula. this proclivity will serve you well all your days.:yeah:

some of those formulas just make things so much harder!! i was helping a fellow nursing classmate with some medication dosage questions and was able to get them in my head in 1/10th the time it took to write her formula. and she wasn't even sure she was using it right or had the right one!! when it can be dumbed down and still be correct, it's usually safer in the long run. just need to double/triple check.