Question

You are to give an injection of a drug. The dosage is 0.4 mg per kilogram of bod The concentration of the drug in vial is listed as 500 ug/ml. The patient's chart Hists weight as 168 pounds. How many milliliters (= cc) are you to inject? Patient's weight Concentration of drug Show calculations: mg/ml

Answer 1

Answer:

We inject 60.9628 milliliters of dosage.

Step-by-step explanation:

Given : You are to give an injection of a drug. The dosage is 0.4 mg per kilogram of bod The concentration of the drug in vial is listed as 500 ug/ml. The patient's chart Hosts weight as 168 pounds.

To find : How many milliliters (= cc) are you to inject?

Solution :

We know that,

1 pound = 0.453592 kg,

Patient's weight = 168  pounds

Patient's weight in kg =$168\times 0.453592=76.203456$  kg

The dosage is 0.4 mg per kilogram of bod.

So, dosage of patient weight = $0.4 \times 76.2035\ mg = 30.4814\ mg$

We know,  1 micro gram = 0.001 mg

Concentration of drug is given by,

$500\ \text{micro grams/ml}= 500\times 0.001\ \text{mg/ml} = 0.5\ \text{mg/ml}$

Now we are supposed to find milliliters inject,

So, milliliters of dosage required to inject is

$d= \frac{30.4814}{0.5} = 60.9628$

Therefore, We inject 60.9628 milliliters of dosage.