Question

A healthcare professional receives the following order: Somatropin 2 mg IM three times a week.

At 0800 on 10/15/14, the healthcare professional prepares the medication to administer later that day. After reading the label (see Figure 14-13 (Links to an external site.)), she draws up all the diluent supplied with the medication (see Figure 14-14 (Links to an external site.)) and injects it into the vial. According to the drug label, the remaining medication may be refrigerated for 14 days if protected from light. She labels the vial “Exp: 0800 10/29/14. Refrigerate. 5 mg/mL” and signs it with her initials. The vial will not be exposed to light in the refrigerator. Otherwise, the healthcare professional might wrap it in foil or place it inside a paper bag.

Later that day, the healthcare professional calculates the amount to administer, based on the label,

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She uses a 0.5 mL tuberculin syringe to administer the medication.

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Answer 1

A tuberculin syringe is utilized to quantify little portions, so it is frequently used to portion little youngsters and babies. There are two distinct sizes of tuberculin syringes which you may experience: one kind can hold an aggregate of 1 mL, and another sort can hold a sum of 0.5 mL; each hundredth of a mL is set apart on a tuberculin syringe, and each fifth of a mL is named; this implies any portion we intend to control with a tuberculin syringe ought to be adjusted to the closest hundredth.

Any portion littler than 0.5 mL ought to be estimated utilizing a tuberculin syringe, and any portion under 1 mL can be all the more precisely estimated utilizing a tuberculin syringe, if a tuberculin syringe which holds 1 mL is accessible. Since a tuberculin syringe has each hundredth of a mL stamped while the 3 mL syringe has just every tenth of a mL checked, it is conceivable to quantify portions with more precision in a tuberculin syringe.

Along these lines, tuberculin syringe may not be helpful for the dosages more than 1 ML. Before we can even start to compute how a lot of medication to give a patient, we should have the option to peruse a prescription mark accurately.

1.         Dosage units

These are units which are utilized to quantify the medication's weight or activity and are the units utilized at whatever point a request is composed for the medication.

The most widely recognized measurements units are milligrams, grams, micrograms, grains, Units and milliequivalents.

2.         Administration units

These are units which are utilized to quantify the medication for genuine organization to the patient.

Since it would be hard to quantify a medication by it's weight or activity, we as a rule measure sedates by their volume or by checking various tablets or cases when we really need to take out the careful sum we need to give the patient.

The most widely recognized organization units are tablets, containers, teaspoons, tablespoons, ounces, drops, liters, and milliliters.

In light of the portion, syringe determination can be made.