1.
Your patient’s blood pressure has remained low all shift. TheICU consultant has now charted a dobutamine infusion to run at 5micrograms/kg/min. Your patient weights 80kg. the 50ml syringecontains 250mg of dobutamine.
a) What is the concentration of dobutamine inthe syringe in mcg/ml?
2.
our patient is ordered 4 mg/hr morphine through the volumetricpump. You have made up an intravenous bag containing 50 mg morphinein 500 mL normal saline.
How many mL/hr will you dial up on the volumetric pump?
b) What rate would you set the pump to run atin mls per hour?
3. Long acting Insulin is used to provide basal or backgroundinsulin and therefore must be implemented with rapid or shortacting insulin at meal times, True OR False?