Question

You are to give an injection of a drug. The dosage is 0.4 mg per kilogram of bod The concentration of the drug in vial is listed as 500 ug/ml. The patient's chart Hists weight as 168 pounds. How many milliliters (= cc) are you to inject? Patient's weight Concentration of drug Show calculations: mg/ml

Answer 1

You inject 60.9628 milliliters of dosage

Explanation:

1 pound = 0.453592kg,

Patient's weight in pounds = 168

Patient's weight in kg =
`76.2035  kg`

Now we are given that The dosage is 0.4 mg per kilogram of bod

So, dosage =
`0.4 * 76.2035 mg = 30.4814 mg`

1 microgram = 0.001 mg

Concentration of drug =
`500 micrograms/ml = 500 * 0.001 mg/ml = 0.5 mg/ml`

Now we are supposed to find How many milliliters (= cc) are you to inject?

So,milliliters of dosage required to inject =
`(30.4814)/(0.5) = 60.9628`

Hence you inject 60.9628 milliliters of dosage