Question

Fluoxitine is given to a client at a dosage of 500 mg every 6 hours. Assuming that the half-life of this drug is 3 hours, at what point would the drug level in the body be 62.5 mg of the original dose?

Answer 1

Answer:

The correct answer would be - 9 hours.

Explanation:

The half life of a drug is the time that is required to decrease or reduced to one half of the its original achieved level or the highest amount previously taken. The half life of drug is also known as the time a drug take to complete its action.

At a dose of 500 mg the Fluoxitine drug would be 250 mg in 3 hour as it is given that half life of this drug is 3 hours, 125 mg in 6 hours, and in the end 62.5 mg in 9 hours.

Thus, the correct answer is : 9 hours.