Kind of humiliating

Daytonite, BSN, RN · Feb 7, 2009

500 ng/100 ml = ? ng/dl?

an ng is a nanogram and there are 10,000 of them in a ml, i think. you should be able to check these calculations on the convertme website:

http://www.convert-me.com/en/

if i'm remembering this right, 1 dl = 100 ml, right? or is it 1000? i swear, this baby is nursing the brains right out of me.

i think 1 dl = 100 ml is right because 1 liter = 1000 ml

oh, and while i'm here, is a miu the same as mu? then 1 iu would be 1000 miu?

that one i do know is correct. a mu is a milliunit. 1 iu (international unit) = 1000 mu, or miu

cmonkey · Feb 7, 2009

Everyone's favorite reptile saves the day again. Thanks!

eta: rats, no ng on that site. I'm not having a lot of luck finding conversion help for that measurement. Evil prof!

morte, LPN, LVN · Feb 7, 2009

This is so sad. I'm finally finishing up my incomplete from last semester, but for the life of me, I cannot come up with a consistent answer for a conversion. 500 ng/100 ml = ? ng/dl?
If I'm remembering this right, 1 dl = 100 ml, right? Or is it 1000? I swear, this baby is nursing the brains right out of me.
Oh, and while I'm here, is a mIU the same as mU? Then 1 IU would be 1000 mIU? Help me, Ceiling Cat! Guess I'd better brush up on my math before fall '10, huh?

http://www.convert-me.com/en/convert/units/volume/volume.milliliter.en.html

it would appear that "dl" is deciliter....which is 0.01 of a mil......good luck

allnurses Guide · Feb 7, 2009

http://www.convert-me.com/en/convert/units/volume/volume.milliliter.en.html
it would appear that "dl" is deciliter....which is 0.01 of a mil......good luck

1 deciliter is 1/10 (0.1) of a liter.. which is 100ml. Metric is very logical.. it's called a DECIliter because there are 10 of them in a liter.

morte, LPN, LVN · Feb 7, 2009

http://www.convert-me.com/en/convert/units/volume/volume.milliliter.en.html
it would appear that "dl" is deciliter....which is 0.01 of a mil......good luck

nanogram is a measure of wt....1 billionth of a gram... http://www.convertworld.com/en/mass/Nanogram.html

morte, LPN, LVN · Feb 7, 2009

1 deciliter is 1/10 (0.1) of a liter.. which is 100ml. Metric is very logical.. it's called a DECIliter because there are 10 of them in a liter.

and you know, that is what I thought, and then i looked it up and read the d(^m table backwards....actually i was thinking deca-.....which is bigger.....

so there is no computation involved in that example, just recognizing the different units....

cmonkey · Feb 7, 2009

So basically, 500 ng/100 ml = 500 ng/dl? It can't be that easy. don't I have to convert ng, too, or is it just sneaky business and writing it down differently to freak mathophobes like me out? Because now that I look at it, I think that's what she's doing. Me, not so logical.

Fermin Hernandez, ADN, ASN, RN · Feb 7, 2009

the "ng" doesn't matter. it could be frogs.

500 frogs/100 ml = X frogs/dl?

replace dl with 100ml.... (10 decliters to a liter, so each dl is 100ml)

500 frogs/100 ml = X frogs/100ml

x= 500 frogs, or 500 ng if you prefer.

In others words, it was already equal :)

cmonkey · Feb 7, 2009

See? Humiliating. But! I kind of got it at the end. But I still can't find resources that list ALL the lab values for the study, so even though my brain still works a bit (lost my wallet today), I can't write the paper until I get to B&N or someplace with LOTS of lab books.

Ah well. No hurry.

Thanks, guys!

TheSquire, DNP, APRN, NP · Feb 8, 2009

Just remember what powers of ten each prefix stands for (e.g. 10^-1 is deci, 10^-3 is mili), and you can do the math, albeit from the long way around. It's pre-algebra.