Chapter 1, Problem 1.104E

The doctor orders 6.0 mg of Demerol as needed for an infant. You have on hand a solution of Demerol with 50 mg of drug per mL. How many mL should you administer to the infant?

1. A patient (60 kg) being treated by a paramedic needs to be intubated, following sedation with ketamine at a dose of 1.5 mg/kg. What dose (in mg) should be administered?  a. Using the patient in the previous question: For treatment, a vial of ketamine (200 mg is 2 mL) is diluted to 20 mL for administration. What volume of the diluted ketamine solution should be administered to the patient? (in mL) b. Continuing on: What is the concentration of the ketamine in the original vial in mM? (the molecular weight of ketamine is 237.7 g/mole).  give answer asap please

Percocet contains oxycodone at varying strengths. Every strength also contains 325 mg of acetaminophen per tablet . If the dose is not to exceed 3.9 g of acetaminophen daily, what is the maximum number of Percocet tablets a patient can take daily?

1. A patient is to receive 5 mEq of potassium chloride. The available stock is 15 mL of potassium chloride containing 20 mEq in a 10% oral solution. How much volume should be administered per dose based on this order? 2. Order: DrugB 250 mg PO daily (one single dose); Supply: DrugB 50 mg tablets (a total of 120 tablets in the bottle). How long will this bottle last for the client? Assume no doses are missed.

normal range of serum glucose is 90-110 mg/dl, express this in mmol/L

A physician has ordered 0.50 mg of atropine, intramuscularly. If atropine were available as 0.10 mg/mL of solution, how many milliliters would you need to give?Express the volume in milliliters to two significant figures.

A pharmacy technician is asked to dispense 250 ml of medicine, each dose of which must contain 15mg/5mL. How many days will this last if the patient uses 6.25 mg tid?

39. Acetaminophen, in amounts greater than 4 g per day, has been associated with liver toxicity. What is the maximum number of 500-mg tablets of acetaminophen that a person may take daily and not reach the toxic level?

typical aspirin tablet contains 5.00 grains of pure aspirin analgesic compound. The rest of the tablet is starch. How many aspirin tablets can be made from 50.0 g of pure aspirin? [Use: 1.00 g = 15.4 grains] A) 17 tablets