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You are treating a patient for whom lidocaine is ordered at 1 mg/kg via IV push. The lidocaine is packaged as a 1 percent solution containing 100 mg/10 mL. The patient weighs 198 pounds. What is the patient's weight in kilograms? How many milliliters will you give? How many milligrams are contained in the amount of fluid given?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

An AEMT's verbal communication and documentation of ________ and ________ findings provide information that hospital staff otherwise might NOT have.
 
  A) mechanism of injury; general impression
  B) scene size-up; primary assessment
  C) nature of illness; general impression
  D) scene size-up; reassessment



Koolkid240

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Answer to Question 1

90 kg, 9 mL, 90 mg of lidocaine

Answer to Question 2

Answer: B



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