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Hi,

Our teacher posted some math problems and I have no clue how she got the answer. Could someone please explain this to me? I've never seen an "mu" before either???????

Pitocin

Give Pitocin at a rate of 4mu/min

Available is 20u in 1000ml LR

Answer 12ml/hr

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Specializes in Pedi.

mu is milliunit... m in front of anything means "milli" which is 1/1000.

So, your order is in milliunits and you have 20 units in 1,000 mL. How many milliunits is 20 units?

Once you figure that out, you can figure out your concentration of mu/mL.

4 mu/min = how many milliunits/hr?.... figure that out and then you should be able to get to your answer in mL/hr by multiplying by your answer from above.

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