{"id":118216,"date":"2023-09-02T10:53:57","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T10:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=118216"},"modified":"2023-09-02T10:53:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T10:53:59","slug":"ob-dosage-calculations-practice-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/02\/ob-dosage-calculations-practice-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"OB DOSAGE CALCULATIONS PRACTICE QUESTIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>OB-PEDS PRACTICE MATH<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Magnesium sulfate 30 grams is mixed in 500 mf Lactated<br>Ringers. Order: infuse a maintenance dose of magnesium sulfate<br>@ 4 grams\/hour. How many ml\/hr will the IV run?<br>Magnesium Sulfate; 30 grams in 500 ml lactate ringer<br>= 30\/500 = 0.06 grams\/ml Order; 4 grams\/hr<br>= 4\/0.06 (As the concentration is 0.06 grams\/ml) = 66.666 ml\/hr should run<br>the IV<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Begin a Pitocin infusion at 5 mu\/min via IV pump for labor induction. On<br>hand is Pitocin 40units in 1000ml Lactated Ringers. How many ml\/hr will<br>the IV run?<br>8ml\/hour (Pitocin infusion rate via IV pump = 5mu\/min<br>Pitocin lactated ringers = 40 units = 5 mu \/ 40,000 milliunit X 1000mL<br>= 0.125 ml\/min = multiply by 60 min = 0.125 x 60 ml\/hr<br>= 8ml\/hr<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The nurse notes the patient&#8217;s IV pump is set at 10ml\/hr. The IV bag<br>holds 30 units of Pitocin mixed in 500ml of Lactated Ringers. How<br>many mu\/min is the client receiving?<br>Given that, the IV pump is at the flow of 10 ml \/ hr<br>The 500 ml IV is diluted with 30 unit of the drug.<br>hence the 1 ml has 0.06 unit ( 30 \/ 500 = 0.06)<br>Here the 1 hr the flow is 10 ml, it means 0.6 units per hour.<br>Hence for 1 hour the flow is 0,6 units, then for 1 minutes it would be 0.01 units.<br>Therefore the client is receiving 0,01 units per minute,, If we convert the unit into mu it would be<br>0.00001 mu<br>Therefore the answer is 0.00001 mu \/ mins.<br><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OB-PEDS PRACTICE MATH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}