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1. Drawing up liquid medication

   staceywilliams replied to staceywilliams's topic in General Specialties

   I thought 10ml syringes are measured in 0.2 ml increments?

2. Drawing up liquid medication

   staceywilliams posted a topic in General Specialties

   If I need to administer liquid Tylenol and the dose to be administered is 9.7ml how would you correctly administer this dose? Would you have to use two syringes?

3. Rounding rules

   staceywilliams replied to staceywilliams's topic in Pediatric

   For pediatric math problems are ml, mcg, mg, and kg rounded to the nearest tenth or hundredth for the final answer?

4. Rounding rules

   staceywilliams replied to staceywilliams's topic in Pediatric

   For pediatric oral medications such as Tylenol is the ml to be given rounded to nearest tenth or hundredth ml? Example 4 yr old patient 32 lbs ordered Tylenol 15mg/kg available Tylenol 160mg/5ml how many ml to administer? I would answer give 6.8ml is...

5. Rounding rules

   staceywilliams posted a topic in Pediatric

   I've been doing some pediatric safe dosage range questions and in my book the weight is first converted to kg and rounded to the nearest 10th then you proceed with the math problem. This is the way we were taught in school. While reading some other b...