Question

Medical command gives you the following orders for a rapid sequence intubation. You estimate the patient weighs at 175 pounds.

Vecuronium is 10 mg/ 10mL.
Your order is 0.1 mg/kg.

What is the correct dose for this patient?
How many mL would you draw from this vial?

Answer 1

Answer ;

Given order is 0.1 mg / kg.
Here the client weight is 175 pounds, that is 79 kg
So the correct dose for the patient is , 79 x 0.1 = 7.9 mg
It can be rounded as 8 mg. So the correct dose for the patient is 8 mg

Here the available dose is 10 mg / 10 ml,
It means 1 ml of Vecuronium contain 1mg of that drug.
Here the patient need 8 mg. Hence the 8 ml needs to be withdrawan.
So the amount need to be withdraw from the vial would be 8 ml