IV drug calcuation question

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Specializes in Home Health.

Order: Protonix 15mg/20ml; give IV infusion BID over 15 minutes.

I have no idea why I am drawing a blank but I am so any help would be great!!!

Thanks

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Order: Protonix 15mg/20ml; give IV infusion BID over 15 minutes.

This problem can be solved using the factor label method as follows:

(20 mL / 15 min) * (60 min / 1 hour)

(20 mL / 15 min) * (60 min / 1 hour)

(20 mL * 60) / (15 * 1 hour)

1200 mL / 15 hour = 80 mL/hour

I hope this information was helpful. :specs:

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Do you run this med at 80 ml over 15 minutes?:nurse:

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Specializes in Home Health.

thank u so much for the reply. I got 80ml/hr also but i wanted to make sure it was right. For some reason I always second guess myself.

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Specializes in Med Surg.

This probably doesn't relate to your question, but check your state laws about infusions. In MO, LPN's can't administer IVPBs for under 30 minutes. That's legally a push, which we can't do. I'm probably being picky, but we had that sort of thing beat into us, lol.

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Specializes in ER, progressive care.

Here's what I do:

amt of drug (mL) x 60min / time for infusion

the 15mg of Protonix is irrelevant in this problem; just pay attention to the 20mL.

20mL x 60min = 1200/15 = 80mL/hr :)

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