Question

A patient is hospitalized for IV FLUIDS and placed on infusion of 75ml per hour from a liter bag with 5%dextrose. How many grams of dextrose are in the bag how many mg of dextrose will this patient get every hour how many grams of dextrose will the patient receive in 8 hours

Answer 1

Now its given that :

A liter bag contains 5% dextrose and patient is given infusion of 75ml per hour of that solution.

Solution:

5% Dextrose means 5g of dextrose in 100 ml of the solution.

So,

1 lt (1000 ml) of the solution will contains = $\frac{5g}{100ml}*1000ml$ dextrose

=50g dextrose

ANS Bag contains 50g of the dextrose.

75 ml of the slution will conatins = $\frac{5g}{100ml}*75ml$ dextrose

= 3.75g dextrose

ANS Every hour patient gets 3750 mg of the dextrose.

each hour patient receives 3.75 g of dextrose

In 8 hrs patient will receive = $3.75\frac{g}{hr}*8 hrs$ dextrose

= 30g dextrose

ANS Patient receive 30g of dextrose in 8 hrs.