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A patient is prescribed 500ml dextrose 5% over 6 hours, i worked it out to be 28 drops, an hour? How do you time it to be 28 drops when you set it and count to 60? Does that aim like 1 drop ever few second? so comfused!
Answers: I'm not really sure what you're asking. But from my calculations:
500ml/6hour = 83.88ml/hr
83.88ml/hr / 60min/hr = ~1.4ml/min
Usually for regular IV access 1ml = 20 drops
20 drops/ml x 1.4 ml/min = 28 drops / MIN or just about 0.5 drops per second.
Looks like you are on the right track, in recent times pay scrupulous attention to you units during conversions. I recommend to other write them out. Good luck =)
that works out to be 83.3 ml's per hour. if you are using 60 drop tubing, that is 83.3 drops per minute...if you use 20 drop tubing since 20 is 1/3 of 60 as surrounded by 60 drop tubing, you divide the 83.3 by 3 or 27.7 drops per minute...15 drop tubing is 1/4 of 60 so that would be 20.8 drops per minute...10 drop tubing is 1/6 so that would be (divide by 6) 13.8 drops per minute....best of luck to you. by the way..that routine if it is 60 drops per minute, one drop every 1 second...30 drops per minute is 1 drop every 2 seconds....120 drops per minute is 2 drops every second, etc
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