Intravenous (IV) calculations
The patient is to receive 3.375 gm of Zosyn IV. Zosyn is diluted in 100 ml of NS and is to be administered over 45 minutes. Using an infusion pump, at what rate would you regulate the IV?
133.3 ml/hr
The physician has ordered Timentin 3.1gm to be administered. Timentin is diluted in 100 ml of NS and is to be administered over 45 minutes. Available is buretrol. At what rate will you regulate the IV?
133gtt/min
The patient has an IV of 1000 ml of D5 1/2NS infusing at a rate of 115ml/hr. If the start time was 0700 when will the infusion be completed?
1542
The patient is to receive 2000 ml over 12 ours. Using a microdrip, at what rate will you regulate the IV
167gtt/min
An IV of 500 ml of D5W is infusing at 95 ml/hr. How many hours and minutes will it take the IV to infuse?
5hrs 16 minutes
Zosyn 3.375gm is ordred IV qoh. The IVPB contains 50 ml of NS and is to infuse over 45 minutes. Using a microdrop calculate the rate of flow. Using the information calculate the rate of flow using an infusion pump.
67 gtt/min 66.7ml/hr
At 0730 there is 675 ml left in your patient's IV bag. If the IV is infusing at 95 ml/hr. At what time will you need to hang a new bag of IVF's?
7 hrs 7 minutes
The IV has 575 ml left. The rate of infusion is 80ml/hr. How long will the IV last?
7hrs 11 minutes
The IV has 250 ml left when you go into the patient's room at 0435. The rate is 65 ml/hr. At what time will you need to hang the new bag of IV fluid?
0826
The physician has ordered Zantac 50 mg. Zantac 50 mg is available in 50 ml bags of IVF's and is to infuse in 30 minutes. The drop factor on your tubing is 15 gtts/ml. At what rate will you set the Baxter pump?
100ml/hr
The IV has 875 ml left. If the rate is 75ml/hr, how long will the infusion last?
11 hrs 40 minutes
The patient is to receive 3000ml of D5W at 125 ml/hr. The gtt factor is 60. At how many gtts/min will you regulate the IV?
125gtt/min
You are to administer an IVPB- Zosyn 3.375 gm in 100 ml of IVF over 45 minutes. The drop factor is 10. At what rate will you set the infusion pump?
133.3 ml/hr
It is 0900 and the physician ordered an IV of 2L NS to infuse at 125ml/hr. The gtt factor is 15. At what times will you need to hang the second bag of IVF's?
1700
The patient is to receive Ancef 1 gram in 50ml over 30 minutes. The IV tubing states 10 gtts/ml. At how many gtts/min will you administer the Ancef?
17gtt/min
The patient has an order for 1500 ml of D5LR to infuse at 75ml/hr. How long will the the IVF's take to infuse?
20 hr
Zantac 50 mg is in 50 ml of NS and is to infuse over 30 minutes. The drop factor is 12 gtt/ml. Calculate the gtts/min. Using the information calculate4 the rate using a volumemetric pump.
20gtt/min 100ml/hr
You have an order for 250 ml of 0.9% NS IV. Calculate the flow rate in drops per minute. The drop factor is 10 drops per milliliter, and the infusion time is 2 hours.
21gtt/min
You are to administer 1000 ml of RL over 4 hours. An infusion pump is available. At what rate would you set the pump?
250 ml/hr
The patient has an IV 250 ml of D5W to infuse at 100 ml/hr. How many hours and minutes will it take to infuse the bag of fluid?
2hrs 30 minutes
You have a 250 ml bag of IVF infusion at 120 ml /hr. How many hours and minutes will this bag last?
2hrs 5 minutes
The physician has ordered 1500 ml of LR to infuse in 12 hours. The gtt factor is 15. Calculate the flow rate to deliver the volume in the prescribed time frame?
31gtt/min
Your patient has 1000 ml to be infused in 8 hours. The gtt factor is 15. At what rate will your set the IV?
31gtt/min
Your patient has an order for 200 ml of NS to be infused in 1 hour. The gtt factor is 10. At what rate will you set regulate the IV?
33gtt/min
The doctor has ordered ml to infuse over 4 hours. The gtt factor is 20. At what rate will you regulate the IV.
42gtt/min
Your patient has an IV of D5W 250 ml with 20 MEq KCL to infuse at 5mEq/hour. How long will the IV last?
4hrs
An IV of 500 ml's is infusing at 100ml/hr... How long will it take the IV to infuse?
5 hrs
An IV has 825 ml left in the bag at 1000. The IV is infusing at 120ml/hr. At what time will you need to hang a new bag of fluids?
6 hrs 53 minutes
The physician has ordered 250 ml of D5W with 20 MEq KCL to infuse over 4 hours. The drop factor is 10. Using an infusion pump, at what rate will you regulate the IV?
62.5ml/hr
The physician ordered 250 ml to infuse over 4 hours. At what rate will you set an infusion pump?
62.5ml/hr
The physician has ordered 500 ml of D5W to infuse over 2 hours. The drop factor is 15 drops per milliliter. Calculate the flow rate.
63gtt/min
The IV container has 575 ml left. The rate is 75 ml/hr. How many hours and minutes will it take the IV to infuse?
7 hrs 40 minutes
The physician ordered 250 ml of NS with 20 MEq of KCI to infuse over 4 hours (.A). At what rate would you set the infusion pump? (B) How many mEq is the patient receiving per hour?
A) 62.5 ml/hr B) 5mEq/hr
You enter the patient's room at 0930 and find that there is 775 ml of fluid left in the IV container. If the IV is infusing at 125 ml/hr. When time will the next container need to be administered
1542
The patient is to receive 250 ml to be infused in 1 1/2 hour. Using a microdrip, at what rate will you set the IV?
167gtt/min
The patient has an order for 100ml of NS to infuse in 30 minutes. The gtt factor is 15. How many gtt/min will the patient receive?
50gtt/min
The patient is to receive 50 mg of Zantac in 50 ml of Ns to infuse in 30 minutes. The administration set Delivers 15 gtts/ml. At what rate will you set the IV?
25gtt/min
Gentamycin 60 mg is to be diluted in 20 l using a buretrol. If the medication is to infuse over 45 minutes. What is the correct infusion rate?
27gtt/min
