Surgery & Surgical Anesthesia- Week 3 Pharmacology

A cockatiel needs 80 mg/kg piperacillin via intramuscular injection. If the bird weighs 30 g, and the concentration of piperacillin is 100 mg/mL, how many mL should be administered?

0.03 mL

A patient requires 3 units of insulin every 12 hr. If the concentration of insulin is 100 units/mL, how many mL should be given at each administration?

0.03 mL

A pet needs 35 mg of a solution, and the medication is available as a 100-mg/mL solution. How many mL will be needed?

0.35 mL

A dosage of 2 tbs bid requires approximately:

1 qt for a 16-day supply

A pet needs 25 mg of a 2% solution. How many mL will be administered? 2% solution = 20 mg/mL

1.25 mL

A dosage of 1 tbs every other day requires approximately:

105 mL for a 2-week supply

A dosage of 1.5 tsp bid requires:

14 tbs for a 2-week supply

A pet needs 100 mg of a medication, and the medication is available as a 50-mg tablet. How many tablets will be needed?

2 tablets

A pet needs 5 mg/kg of Albon po sid on day 1, then 2.5 mg/kg po sid for 5 more days. The medication is available in 125-mg tablets and the pet weighs 25 lb. How many tablets will be dispensed for the owner?

2 tablets

A diagnostic laboratory requires 1 mL of serum to run a chemistry panel. A bird with a PCV of 50% would need how many full HCT tubes collected to have enough serum for the panel? (Each HCT tube holds 0.1 mL of whole blood.)

20

A commercial poultry diet contains 18 g of calcium per pound of feed on an as-fed basis. If calcium carbonate, the sole calcium source, is 60% elemental calcium, how much calcium carbonate is in 1 ton of feed?

21.6 kg

A dog weighs 55 lb. Its weight can also be stated as:

25 kg

A dog consumes five bowls of water in a 24-hr period. Each bowl contained exactly 100 mL. If you collect 475 mL of urine over the same 24-hr period, approximately how many mL constitute insensible loss?

25 mL

A dose of 40 mEq KCl has been added to 1 L of normal saline. What drip rate would provide a patient with 1 mEq KCl/hr?

25 mL/hr

A doctor's order calls for prednisone at a dosage of 2 mg/kg to be delivered orally to a 7.5-kg cat. How many 5-mg tablets of prednisone would you administer to the cat?

3 tablets

A dosage of 5 mL tid equals approximately:

3 tsp/day

A commercial cat food is 160 kcal/cup. A cat weighing 6 lb fed at a rate of 40 calories/lb/day should be fed how many cups at each meal if you feed him twice a day?

3/4 cup

A growth in the skin is 2 inches in diameter. What is the diameter of the growth in centimeters?

5 cm

A commercial dog food is 420 kcal/cup. A dog weighing 60 lb fed at a rate of 70 kcal/lb/day should be fed how many cups at each meal if he is fed twice daily?

5 cups

A dose of 30 mEq KCl has been added to 1 L of normal saline. What drip rate would provide a patient with 2 mEq KCl/hr?

67 mL/hr

A dosage of 1 tbs daily requires:

7 oz for a 14-day supply

A drug's tendency to bind to a receptor is called its:

Affinity

A drug classified as an antagonist may exert its influence by:

Blocking the neurotransmitter receptor on the effector organ

A drug that requires biotransformation before it becomes active is called a:

Prodrug