9) A physician orders you to give the patient 75 mg of Lidocaine IV push. You have on hand a 1% solution of Lidocaine, how many mls will you push to achieve this dose?
10) How many grams of dextrose are in a 250 ml bag of D5W?
11) Which of the following is equal to a 1 : 5000 dilution?
a) 0.2 mg b) 0.2 mg/ml c) 2 mgs d) 2 gms/ml e) 0.2 gms
12) A physician orders you to administer saline at a rate of 150 ml/hr. If you have a liter bag of saline with a 20 gtts/ml administration set attached, how many drops per minute will the iv have to run to complete this order?
13) You are ordered to give sodium bicarbonate IV to a 132 pound female. Knowing the dose is 1 mEq/Kg, how many mEq's will be given?
14) If you were to make a liter of Normal Saline (0.9%) how many grams of sodium chloride would you have to add to the liter of sterile, distilled water?
15) A patient took 24 Rolaids in an apparent suicide attempt. If each tablet contains 0.550 grams of calcium carbonate, how many grams did the patient consume?
16) What is the base concentration of a Dopamine solution if 400 mg of drug were placed into 500 mls of D5W?
17) With regard to the admixture in question 8, how many micrograms would be in each drop of solution if the administration set is 60 gtts/ml?
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