Hesi Medical Dosage Calculation
Hesi Medical Dosage Calculation ( 53 Questions)
A client returns from the PACU with a bag of IV fluids that has 630 mL remaining in the 1,000 mL bag. The prescription reads, "Continue the present IV over the next 7 hours." The IV administration set delivers 10 gtt/mL. The nurse should regulate the infusion to deliver how many drops/minute to accomplish the new prescription? (Enter numeric
value only).
To find out how many drops/minute the nurse should regulate the infusion to, we need to first calculate how many mL/minute the infusion should deliver.
To do this, we need to divide the remaining volume of IV fluids by the number of hours that it should last. Since there are 60 minutes in an hour, we can convert the number of hours to minutes by multiplying it by 60.
Therefore, the number of minutes that the IV fluids should last is 7 x 60 = 420 minutes. Now, we can divide the remaining volume of IV fluids by this number to get the infusion rate in mL/minute. The result is 630 / 420 = 1.5 mL/minute.
Next, we need to multiply this infusion rate by the number of drops per mL that the IV administration set delivers. Since the IV administration set delivers 10 gtt/mL, we can multiply 1.5 mL/minute by 10 gtt/mL to get the infusion rate in drops/minute. The result is 1.5 x 10 = 15 gtt/minute.