An ambulatory veterinarian from the VMTH is going to Bilario's pig farm to administer antibiotics after asuspected carrier of infectious diseases entered the farm. Two cc of penicillin (300,000 units/ml) will beinjected for every 50 pounds of body weight. (a) How many full vials should be stocked in the ambulatory truck if there are 329 pigs weighing 50 pounds, 733 pigs weighing 100 pounds and 96 pigs weighing 250 pounds to be treated? (Thepenicillin comes in vials of 250 ml).(b) If 1 mg = 1600 units of penicillin, what dosage of penicillin will the pigs receive on a mg/kg basis?

An ambulatory veterinarian from the VMTH is going to Bilario's pig farm to administer antibiotics after asuspected carrier of infectious diseases entered the farm. Two cc of penicillin (300,000 units/ml) will beinjected for every 50 pounds of body weight. (a) How many full vials should be stocked in the ambulatory truck if there are 329 pigs weighing 50 pounds, 733 pigs weighing 100 pounds and 96 pigs weighing 250 pounds to be treated? (Thepenicillin comes in vials of 250 ml).(b) If 1 mg = 1600 units of penicillin, what dosage of penicillin will the pigs receive on a mg/kg basis?

Curren'S Math For Meds: Dosages & Sol

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Chapter10: Reconstitution Of Powdered Drugs

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