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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

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Specializes in Critical Care.

My first guess would be that they went into cardiac arrest because they are in a facility without electricity to power IV pumps and without contact with the outside world since they apparently missed that as of 2010 lidocaine is only recommended as an "if all else fails" treatment of both stable and unstable arrhythmia (I realize this is just a nursing school question so please take no offense personally).

First you have to know what lidocaine is (or used to be) used to treat?

What is it used to treat that could also cause cardiac arrest?

What dose would be indicated?

What is the concentration of lidocaine in your 250ml bag?

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.

Is this a homework question?

Why would you be hanging Lido without a pump?

What concentration was the lido?

What was the "gtt rate" supposed to be?

Look up lido.

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