IV question please help

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you are to give decadron 6mg, IV now. decadron comes in a 5cc vial with 4 mg/cc. the medication need to be administer in 50 cc of D5W IVPB using 10 gtt/ml secondary line. how many cc of decadron should you add to the secondary iv bag? what drop/min rate is needed to administer the medication in 30 minutes?

this is a two part question and i need help with both please, i am not sure where to begin starting with the first half of the question.

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So if decadron comes in a 4mg/ml concentration, how much would you draw up to get 6 mls?

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i have to admister 6mg not 6ml

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Sorry... how much would you draw up to get 6 mgs

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you are to give decadron 6mg, IV now. decadron comes in a 5cc vial with 4 mg/cc. the medication need to be administer in 50 cc of D5W IVPB using 10 gtt/ml secondary line. how many cc of decadron should you add to the secondary iv bag? what drop/min rate is needed to administer the medication in 30 minutes?

this is a two part question and i need help with both please, i am not sure where to begin starting with the first half of the question.

If you truly have no clue, then I think the place to start is to figure out what you want and what you have. I think people get WAY too hung up on simply plugging numbers into a formula without understanding, so I think you should look at the big picture as a first step, always (it's a great way to have a general double-check of your math, too).

What do you want to administer to the patient - how many milligrams?

And how much medication (milligrams) do you have in that vial, total?

Will you use all of it, some of it, or more than one vial?

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1.5 ml? because 2ml is 8mg so 1.5ml is 6mg?

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i need to administer 6mg

the total mg in the vial is 20 mg

i will use some of it

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1.5 ml? because 2ml is 8mg so 1.5ml is 6mg?

Yes.

Now you see the big picture and you do have the right answer.

Can you put that into a formula so you could do this same basic problem with a different order and a different vial/concentration?

:)

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for the second portion of the problem is it, 17drops per minute as the answer?

x gtt= minute * 50ml/30min * 10gtt/ml * = 17gtt/min

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