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Anastasy [175]
3 years ago
8

A client with a gastrointestinal bleed has been prescribed two units of packed red blood cells over three hours each, which the

nurse will administer using a blood set with a drip factor of 10 gtts/mL. Each unit of packed cells is 300 mL. The nurse should set the transfusion at how many drops per minute?
Biology
1 answer:
Lesechka [4]3 years ago
3 0
42-rationale: each unit of packed rbcs contains 250 ml. each unit is to infuse over 1 hour (60 minutes).\r\nuse the following equation:\r\n250 ml/60 minutes = 4.16 ml.\r\nmultiply by the drip factor:\r\n4.16 ml 10 gtt = 41.6 gtt/minute (42
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