dellyneil

2 mg/min of Lidocaine to be infused to a patient who is experiencing an arrhythmia. But there are only 250 ml bags of D5W. You have a 60 gtt/mL microdrip setup. Your experienced colleague suggests you use as your IV drip. Minutes later, your patient goes into cardiac arrest. How many drops per minute your administration set for the IV drip was supposed to be, and what was the likely reason why your patient went into cardiac arrest