Plz help with Bumex, amio, dopamine, cardizem calculations!

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Hi, I'm a new grad and would like to know the answers to some calculations to know if I am doing them right.

1. Cardizem ordered at 15mg/hr. Concentration 100mg/100ml of 0.9 NS. What do I run the pump at?

2. Integrilin orders 2mcg/kg/min (pt is 60kg). What rate will the pump be set at?

3. Bumex to be administered at 1mg/hr. Concentration 12.5mg in a 50ml bag. Pump set at?

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!

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Specializes in M/S, MICU, CVICU, SICU, ER, Trauma, NICU.

This is basic math. And I mean basic.

Please review your med formulas.

Especially the first one. If you work it out, you'd see how simple it is.

Come on.

P.S. what are YOUR answers....and we'll see if they are right or not.

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Specializes in Telemetry RN.
Hi, I'm a new grad and would like to know the answers to some calculations to know if I am doing them right.

1. Cardizem ordered at 15mg/hr. Concentration 100mg/100ml of 0.9 NS. What do I run the pump at? 15 ml/hr

2. Integrilin orders 2mcg/kg/min (pt is 60kg). What rate will the pump be set at? YOu didnt give a concentration

3. Bumex to be administered at 1mg/hr. Concentration 12.5mg in a 50ml bag. Pump set at? 4 ml/hr

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!

Check my work too please =)

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho, ASC.

We would absolutely be doing you (and your future patients) a major disservice if we just provided answers.

As has been suggested above, providing us with your answers and asking for help with problem-solving any wrong answers is much more productive and helpful than flat-out asking someone else to do your homework.

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A new grad huh? Seems awfully similar to nursing school questions. As stated, review your formulae, come up with the answers and tell us what you think. Then, we can have a discussion.

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Specializes in SRNA.

Integrillin is provided in either a 0.75mg/mL or 2mg/mL infusion. I've only ever seen 0.75mg/mL ordered, so I'll use that:

(120mcg/min)x(60min/1hr)x(1mL/750mcg) = 9.6mL/hr

If the 2mg/mL solution was used:

(120mcg/min)x(60min/1hr)x(1mL/2000mcg) = 3.6mL/hr

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Specializes in ICU, Intermediate Care, Progressive Care.

Er... your profile says "pre-nursing student," too... I'm not even in any nursing/pharmacology classes yet and these are pretty simple...

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Specializes in Psych/CD/Medical/Emp Hlth/Staff ED.

Whenever a solution has a 1:1 ratio of mg/ml, like your cardizem does, the mg/hr will be the same as the ml/hr.

For the integrilin, multiply the number of mcg by the kg to get mcg/min, then multiply that by 60 to get the mcg/hr. You'll need to know the concentration of the Integrilin to set the pump.

For the Bumex you can first find the concentration ratio, in this case there is 1mg in every 4 ml. One way to solve for this is to cross multiply: 12.5 over 50 = 1 over x (mg on the top, ml on the bottom, with your unknown as x). Cross multiply (50x1) and divide (50 divided by 12.5)=4. This tells you 1mg=4ml, so your pump would be set at 4ml/hr to infuse 1mg/hr.

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Specializes in SRNA.
Er... your profile says "pre-nursing student," too... I'm not even in any nursing/pharmacology classes yet and these are pretty simple...

And for all we know, she hasn't updated her profile since she signed up in July of 2007.

Sure, ideally she ought to have provided some of her own answers for critique, but why can't we just take a question at face value and assume that she is really just looking to double check her own answers, that she already did?

Don't start eating our young before you're a nurse! LOL

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Specializes in Dialysis,M/S,Home Care,LTC, Admin,Rehab.

She said please...jeez! Aren't there more polite, professional and respectful ways to address colleagues?

Who says that the people who chose to respond to this post are meant to teach the OP a lesson?

Seriously, with the eating their young! What purpose does your arrogance serve, other than to stroke your

own egos? Where is the compassion? Have you all been shamed and spoken to as children in an adult learning

situation, feeling the need to lash out at someone? Feeling the need to show them a thing or two?

For what it's worth, my opinion is that this site is perfectly representative of personal, therefore professional

burnout and toxicity.

This is my brain :redpinkhe, and

This is my brain when I realize that someone is being unsupportive and judgemental for the sake of enhancing the

circumference of their puffed out chests :banghead:

For what it's worth.

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Way to go Doc! :yeah:

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Specializes in ICU, Intermediate Care, Progressive Care.

You know what, ya'll are right :imdbb: It's been a long day.

To RamaMama--my apologies for being overly judgmental. It wasn't well-done of me. =)

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