dosage calculation

1000ml/20 = 50 50/4= 12.5ml/hr, my school would have rounded to 13 though?

20 units = 20,000 milliunits.

20,000 milliunits/1,000 mL = 20 milliunits/mL.

The patient is to receive 4 mu/min x 60 min/hr = 240 mu/hr. 240 mu/hr x 1 mL/20 mu = 12 mL/hr.

I think I use dimensional analysis, but I found that if I do it the cross canceling way, it'll never fail me..and it hasn't yet:

First....I converted so we all have the same units, mu. There is 20,000 mu in 20 units. I am sure you can ifgure out how I got that.

Then at the top of my page I put ml/hr and circle it, as that is what I want to know.

I set up the problem so I can cancel out everything so all that is left is ml and hr.

4mu/min X 1000mL/20000mu X 60min/1hr = 12

If you write this down it's much easier. 4 mu corsses out with 20000mu. the minutes also cross out since there is one in the denominitor and 60 minutes in the numerator. All that is NOT crossed out is mL in the numerator, which we want, and hr in the denominator, which we also want. So you know you set it up right if that's all you have left and everything else crosses out, evenly.

Then does do the math straight across..and you get twelve even.

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1000ml/20 = 50 50/4= 12.5ml/hr, my school would have rounded to 13 though?

No, because you don't divide units into cc to get units per cc. Exactly backwards.

I got 12 mL per hr. I use that method as well

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order is 4 milli units per minute

have 20,000 milliunits per 1000 mL

20,000mu 4mu

-------- x ------- = 0.2 milliunits per minute x 60 min = 12 milliunits per hour

1000mL Xmin

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