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The patient has vancomycin 750 mg ordered once daily. The vancomycin is available in 250 mL of NS and should infuse over 1 hour. Using tubing with a 10 gtt/mL drop factor, how many drops per minute should the vancomycin be infused? ______________
 
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Round the answer to the nearest whole number. The physician orders magnesium sulfate IV drip at 1 g/h for pregnancy-induced hypertension. The medication is supplied in magnesium sulfate 25 g/500 mL of D5W.
 
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Reply #1 on: Jul 3, 2018
Answer to Question 1

42 gtt/min

Answer to Question 2

20 mL/h


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Reply 2 on: Jul 3, 2018
Wow, this really help

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Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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