Question

Patient is to be given 90mg of Naproxen via a suspension th 25m(g)/(10)mL. How many mL would be administered?

Answer 1

To administer 90mg of Naproxen with a concentration of 25mg/10mL, a nurse would need to give the patient 36mL of the suspension.

Step-by-step explanation:

To determine how many milliliters (mL) of a suspension are needed to administer 90mg of Naproxen when the suspension concentration is 25mg/10mL, we need to use a simple unit conversion. The goal is to find out how many times the concentration of Naproxen in the suspension goes into the desired dose of 90mg. In this case, the conversion is straight forward. The patient needs 90mg and each 10mL of the suspension contains 25mg. To calculate this, we set up a proportion where 25mg is to 10mL as 90mg is to x mL.

25mg / 10mL = 90mg / x mL

Multiplying both sides of the equation by x mL and then by 10mL to isolate x, we get:

25x = 900
x = 900 / 25
x = 36 mL

Therefore, the patient should be given 36mL of the Naproxen suspension.