You inject (intravenously) a 70 Kg patient with 30 mg of drug that has a Vd of 5 L/Kg and an elimination half life of 3 hr.   Assuming that this is a loading dose, what would be your predicted steady state plasma drug concentration?

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Clinical Pharmacology

Pharmacology is a discipline of medicine that studies how medications interact with the systems and processes of living organisms, focusing on drug action mechanisms as well as therapeutic and other purposes.