Question

Medication Q is available only in liquid form with a concentration of 30 ug/mL (micrograms per milliliter). Determine how much of the liquid should be given to a patient when the following amounts of medication Q are ordered by the physician:(A) 15 ug (B) 10 ug (C) 200 ug

Answer 1

Consider that the concentration of the medication in the solution is 30 ug/mL.

It means that 1 mL of the solution contains 30 ug of the medication.

So the Unitary Method can be applied to obtain the quantity of solution corresponding to 15 ug of medication, as follows,

`\begin{gathered} \because30\text{ ug of medication}=1\text{ mL of solution} \\ \therefore15\text{ ug of medication}=((15*1)/(30))=0.5\text{ mL of solution} \end{gathered}`

Thus, 0.5 mL of the liquid solution should be given to the patient.