Question

1. Order: D5W 500 ml IV infuse over 12 hours. Find the pump setting in ml/hr. 4 1.6 h 2. Order: NS 1,000 mL IV infuse over 24h. Find the drip rate in drops per minute if the drop factor is 15gtt/mL. 3. A continuous IV is infusing at 120 ml/h. How many milliliters will infuse in two hours and thirty minutes? SOOL 4. An IV starts at 1800 h and runs at 21 gtt/min with a drop factor of 10gtt/mL. At what time will the first 200 mL have infused into the client? 5. For every 100 mL of urine output, replace with 40 mL of water via nasogastric tube q6h. If the client's urine output for the past 6 hours is 300 ml, what is the replacement volume of water needed? 6. Order: LR 1,000 mL IV infuse over 16 hours. What is the pump setting in ml/hr? 7. Normal saline is infusing intravenously at 125ml/hr. What is the flow rate measured in mL/min? 8. Order: NS 800 mL infuse over 6 hours. a. Calculate the initial pump setting in ml/h. b. When the nurse checks this infusion 4 hours later, 500 mL are left in the bag. Recalculate the pump setting for the remaining 500 ml c. If the facility protocols indicate that flow rate adjustments must not exceed 25% of the original rate, may the adjustment be made? 9. A 500 ml IV starts at 2100 and runs at 33 gtt/min with a drop factor of 10 gtt/ml. At what time will it finish? 10. How long will it take 1,000 ml to infuse at the rate of 30 gtt/min with a drop factor of 15 gtt/mL? 11. How many milliliters will infuse in 2 hours at the rate of 30 gtts/min with a drop factor of 15 gtt/ml? 12. A continuous IV is infusing at 30 ml/hr. How many milliliters will infuse in 45 minutes? 13. Order: D5% NS 500 mL over 3 hours. Find the pump setting in milliliters per hour. 14. Order: LR 500 mL over 12 h. Find the flow rate in drops per minute if the drop factor is 15 gtt/mL. 15. NS in infusing intravenously at 75ml/hr. How long will it take for 500 ml to infuser

Answer 1

1. Volume given = 500ml

Time = 12 hr

Flow rate or pump setting in ml/hr = 500ml/12hr = 41.6ml/hr

2. Volume = 1000ml

time = 24 hrs or 24 x 60 = 1440min

drop factor = 15gtt/ml

drip rate = volume/time x drop factor

drip rate = 1000/1440 x 15 = 10.41 gtt/min

3. Flow rate = 120ml/hr

time = 2 and half hours

so if 120ml of fluid is being infused in hour, then in 2 and half hours the fluid infused will be 300 ml.