Question

Your infusion pump is broken, and a patient needs a chemotherapy cocktail of 500mL to be delivered over 2.5 hours. You want to deliver the fluid at the rate of 50 ggt/min. How many drops should be administered each minute to achieve this rate?

a) 100 ggt/min
b) 200 ggt/min
c) 150 ggt/min
d) 50 ggt/min

Answer 1

To deliver the chemotherapy cocktail at a rate of 50 ggt/min, 200 drops should be administered each minute.

Step-by-step explanation:

To calculate the number of drops per minute, we need to convert the volume to be delivered from milliliters to drops. The conversion factor for an infusion set with a drip rate of 50 ggt/min is 20 drops/mL.

Given that the volume to be delivered is 500 mL and the time is 2.5 hours (or 150 minutes), we can calculate the rate of delivery per minute by dividing the volume by the time: 500 mL / 150 min = 3.33 mL/min.

Next, we can multiply the rate of delivery per minute by the conversion factor: 3.33 mL/min × 20 drops/mL = 66.6 drops/min (rounded to the nearest whole number).