Question

Your patient weighs 15 kg and is scheduled for to have an abdominal exploratory. You are instructed to provide 0.9% sodium chloride IV at a rate of 30ml/kg/hr. What will be the fluid rate be for your IV pump?

Answer 1

Answer:

$V_f=450ml/hr$

Step-by-step explanation:

From the question we are told that:

Mass $m=15kg$

Amount of NaCl IV $n=0.9\%$

Rate $R=30ml/kg/hr$

Generally the equation for fluid rate be for your IV pump is mathematically given by

$V_f=mR$

Since

Rate is

30ml/kg/hr at 1kg patient Weight

Therefore

$V_f=15*30$

$V_f=450ml/hr$