Author Question: A patient is to receive 100 mL of normal saline over the next 5 hours with microdrip tubing. How ... (Read 74 times)

leilurhhh · **on:** Jul 23, 2018

A patient is to receive 100 mL of normal saline over the next 5 hours with microdrip tubing. How many drops per minute are required to infuse this fluid in the prescribed time? _____ gtt per minute

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Question 2

When administering a neuromuscular blocking drug, the nurse needs to remember which principle?

a. It is used instead of general anesthesia during surgery.
b. Only skeletal muscles are paralyzed; respiratory muscles remain functional.
c. It causes sedation and pain relief while allowing for lower doses of anesthetics.
d. Artificial mechanical ventilation is required because of paralyzed respiratory muscles.