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?

b)   What rate would you set the pump to run atin mls per hour?

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