Measuring drops. Medication is often delivered through an intravenous (IV) drip line that allows a prescribed amount of a drug to be administered at a fixed rate. In this medical context, the standard abbreviation for a drop is gtt(from the Latin gutta, for drop). Each delivery system has a particular frop factor, which is the number of drops per milliliter of solution (with units gtt/mL).
a. A particular macrodrip system has a drop factor of 20gtt/mL. how many drops are in a 0.5L bag of normal saline?
b. A particular macrodrip system has a drop factor of 60gtt/mL. How many drops are in a 1.5L bag of D5W (dextrose)solution?
c. Suppose an entire 1L bag of normal saline is administered in five hours through a system with a drop factor of 15gtt/mL. How many drops were delivered? What was the rate of infusion in gtt/min?
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