As it turns out, Beans also has a low potassium reading on his labwork. We need to infuse KCI into his fluid bag. The drug is 20 meq/10ml You know his fluid rate already, so work from there. The rate for his drug needs to be 5 meq/kg/24hr. How many ml of KCI will you be adding to a new 1 L bag of Normosol?
As it turns out, Beans also has a low potassium reading on his labwork. We need to infuse KCI into his fluid bag. The drug is 20 meq/10ml You know his fluid rate already, so work from there. The rate for his drug needs to be 5 meq/kg/24hr. How many ml of KCI will you be adding to a new 1 L bag of Normosol?
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Transcribed Image Text:Beans the 21kg Pit Bull needs to be put on IV fluids STAT! He is now 3% dehydrated and had 25ml
of diarrhea. Calculate his fluid needs step by step using the standard 50 ml/kg/day.
Calculate MR for 24 hours=
Calculate HD for 24 hours=
What is his CL for 24 hours=
Put it all together to give me rate per hour-
number.
Round to the nearest whole
On a standard 15 gtt/ml drip set what is his drip rate in seconds=
gtt/?sec)
(write as ?
Transcribed Image Text:As it turns out, Beans also has a low potassium reading on his labwork. We need to infuse KCI into
his fluid bag. The drug is 20 meq/10ml You know his fluid rate already, so work from there. The
rate for his drug needs to be 5 meq/kg/24hr.
How many ml of KCI will you be adding to a new 1 L bag of Normosol?
How much will you add if the bag actually had 750 ml left in it?
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