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Physician orders this to be given every 4 hours for a 66-lb child. The medication is The recommended dose of meperidine for a child is 6 mg/kg/day for pain. The available as 50 mg/5 mL. What is the total
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Physician orders this to be given every 4 hours for a 66-lb child. The medication is

The recommended
dose of meperidine for a child is 6 mg/kg/day for pain. The
available as 50 mg/5 mL.
What is the total amount of medication that the child can receive in a day?
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User Shahin Dohan
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It’s mostly math. The child should have 6 mg a dose every 4 hours. So if we divide 50 by 6 (the dosage). Then we would get like 8.33 continuing. So basically the child could have 8 doses in a day, which would be a grand total of 48 mg.
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