1. A 6-year-old child weighing 22 kg is ordered IV Benzylpenicillin to be given over 4 hours. The recommended dose of Benzylpenicillin is 60 mg/kg/dose every 4 hours.
What dose would you administer in mg?
2.
You are caring for a patient with urosepsis in the ICU. Thepatient’s blood pressure has dropped and the mean arterial pressure(MAP) is 50. The ICU consultant has now charted a noradrenalineinfusion.
In this ICU single strength noradrenaline is made by adding 4mgof noradrenaline to 50mls of a compatible fluid.
a. Calculate the concentration of a single strengthnoradrenaline infusion in mcg/ml
b. Calculate the starting rate in ml/hr if the starting dose isto be 400mcg/hr
3.
A child is prescribed 180mg oral flucloxacillin. On hand isstock containing 250mg per 5ml.
How much should be given?
0.72ml?, 4ml, 3.6ml or 1ml?
