Nursing Math… please be as detailed as you can. Thank you?

1. The client is receiving intravenous heparin at the rate of 10 ml per hour. How many units per hour is the receviing if the IV is labled 2500 Heparin units in 500 ml D5W?

3. Deliver 1000 units of Heparin per hour from an infusion of 20,000 units in 500 ml using administration tubing with a drip factor of 15 gtts per ml.

4. A potassium rider is order for a client on intermittnet gastric suctioning via a miller-abbot tube. The order reads, " add 15 meq KCL to 500 ml of D5W and piggy back administer over 4 hours. Injectable KCL is labeled 2 meq per ml. How much will you add to the iV solution?

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One Response to Nursing Math… please be as detailed as you can. Thank you?

  1. J says:

    The vast majority of math folks (including me) have no idea what the medical terms you use mean. I’m familiar with chemistry, physics, engineering and math but I have no idea what you mean by D5W, gtts, meq, drip factor. Its a shorthand specifically created and used only by the health industry. So I think you have 3 options: (1) do nothing and hope someone familiar with them stumbles on your question, (2) edit your question with generic terms or translations, or (3) re-ask your question in the Medical area of Answers. I hope you get an answer somehow.

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