Question

Vancomycin 250 mg/30 ml IV is ordered every 6 hours. The child weighs 17.3 kg. The recommended dose range is 40 mg/kg/day. The medication needs to be infused over one hour.

a. Is this a safe dose?

b. What rate would you set the syringe pump?

Answer 1

a. Answer ; No, the given drug is not safe.
Reason ; The recommended dose is 40 mg/kg/day, here the client weight is 17. 3 kg,
so he need to receive 692 mg / day and for every 6 hour he need to get 173 mg, but the ordered dose is 250 mg for every 6 hours, hence drug crosses the suggested limit, it is considered to be a dangerous one.

b. Answer ; In the given statement , it is referred that the given drug is infused over one hour.
Here the available volume of the drug is 30 ml.
Hence the infusion pump need to be set at 30 ml/ hour.