A patient has an order for a drug to be infused at the rate of 5 mcg/kg/min. A 500 ml bag contains 250 mg of the drug and the pa
1 answer:
The flow rate is 17gtts/min.
<h3>What is the drug infusion rate?</h3>- The rate of infusion (or dosing rate) in pharmacokinetics refers to the ideal rate at which a drug should be supplied to achieve a steady state of a fixed dose that has been shown to be therapeutically effective. This rate is not only the rate at which a drug is administered.
- The infusion volume is divided into drops, which is known as a drip-rate. The Drip Rate formula is as follows: Volume (mL) times time (h) equals drip-rate. A patient must get 1,000 mL of intravenous fluids over the course of eight hours.
- Infusion rates of 3–4 mg/kg per minute are advised by manufacturers to reduce rate-related adverse effects. Usually, the infusion lasts for several hours. Although not advised, rates exceeding 5 mg/kg per hour may be tolerated by some patients.
- If no negative reactions occur, the rate may be increased in accordance with the table every 30 minutes up to a maximum rate of 3 ml/kg/hour (not to exceed 150 ml/hour).
To find the flow rate is 17gtts/min:
Therefore, The flow rate is 17gtts/min.
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Answer:
Because the wavelengths of macroscopic objects are too short for them to be detectable.
Explanation:
Wavelength of an object is given by de Broglie wavelength as:
Where, 'h' is Planck's constant, 'm' is mass of object and 'v' is its velocity.
So, for macroscopic objects, the mass is very large compared to microscopic objects. As we can observe from the above formula, there is an inverse relationship between the mass and wavelength of the object.
So, for vary larger masses, the wavelength would be too short and one will find it undetectable. Therefore, we don't observe wave properties in macroscopic objects.