Drug Calculations for Busy Paramedics

5. You administer furosemide (Lasix) 80mg IVP. Identify three parameters you would use to monitor the effectiveness of this medication.

1. Cut four 6-inch pieces of dialysis tubing and soak in a coffee cup filled with tap water for 2 hours prior to your start

So any time you use a 15 gtts/ml drip set just divide the amount of solution per hour by 4. 80 6 = 20 gtts/min The 20 gtts/ml drip set is calculated the same way except you divide by 3 since there are three 20 minute periods in one hour. 20 goes into 20 once and 20 goes into 60 three times. Observe the example below: 80 ml (amount) X 20 gtts/ml (drip set) 60 (divided my time in minutes – over 1 hour) = The answer is 26.6 or rounded off to 27 gtts/minute. This means all you need to do is divide the amount of solution per hour by 3 to get the gtts/min. Summary • Drip sets used in medicine are based on the 60 minute clock for timing and calculations. All you need to do is divide the amount to be infused each hour by how many time periods the drip set has in one hour which is based on the clock. The drip sets include the minidrip set, 60 gtts/ml, and three regular drip sets which include the 10 gtts/ml set, 15 gtt/ml set, and the 20 gtts/ml set. There is one (1) 60 minute period in one hour, six (6) 10 minute periods in one hour, four (4) 15 minute periods in one hour, and three (3) 20 minute periods in one hour. When reducing fractions to allow easier calculations

In surgery it is most often used in the dry, powder form and is dusted onto oozing surfaces as needed. For reconstituted thrombin, the recommended dosage is 1,000 to 2,000 International Units per milliliter (King, FDA, 2016). Vials come in total volumes of 5,000 units with a 5 mL diluent and 20,000 units with a 20 mL diluent (Medscape, thrombin).

Calculate: How long does it take for the blood concentration to go from the maximum recommended value to the minimum recommended value? It takes about 4 hours

• Serially dilute the 4 mg/ml solution with buffer A to make working solutions of 400 µg/ml and 40 µg/ml.

4. Exposure 3 repeat step 3 w/o including the saline bags (used as a control).

water during the equilibration period of 10 minutes. Vials 1,2, and 3 should be in the bath containing water at

The correct syringe is used to place 10 cm3 of the first glucose solution into the boiling tube.

Three (3) drops, three (3) times a day for three (3) days starting the day before the study.

The emergency department physician inserts a central venous catheter via the subclavian vein and prescribes Lactated Ringer's solution at 1,000 ml/hr via infusion pump.

This article uses a number of different sciences to solve the issue of inaccurate drug dosage. The first is biomedical engineering which is where the concepts of engineering are applied to the creation of something used in a medical setting. In this study the biomedical engineering is scene within the use of the microfluidic chip because it was designed and adapted for medical research. Microfluidic chips have been around for a couple decades and are used for many different purposes but this technology was adapted by the scientist Ryan Oliver to satisfy the needs of the study. He designed and created a microchip that was able to replicate the biological environment found within the human kidneys using biomedical engineering. The scientist had

3. Use a sterile pipette to transfer 0.1 ml of each dilution on to a MacConkey agar plate.

2000mg/day. If doses >2000mg/day are required, give in 3 divided doses (not to exceed 2500mg/day)

Similarly to doctors and pharmacists, nurses also rely on the metric system and are required to convert measurements quickly. Many nurses deal with this daily through calculating IV drip rates. Most IV bags contain one thousand cubic centimeters of fluid. A doctor may order his/her nurse to administer one thousand cubic centimeters every 8 hours. This may not seem too difficult, but in order to do this a nurse has to precisely calculate the drip rate of the machine so that the patient gets the required amount of medication in the time frame the doctor suggests. In contrast, a smaller bag of IV fluid may require instruction to give a patient five hundred milligrams every thirty minutes (Boyd). Before calculating the drip rate of the small bag, a nurse would have to convert the original cubic centimeters to milligrams.