Question

A child is ordered Unasyn 800 mg every 4 hours. Unasyn is available as 800 mg in 50 mL of NS The recommended infusion time is 1 hour. You wil set your infusion pump at mL/hr

Answer 1

Order Unasyn 800 mg every 4 hours

Thus we have to administer 800 mg in one hour

Unasyn is available as 800 mg in 50 mL of NS

= 800mg/50ml

= 16mg/ml

= 800/16

= 50 ml should be infused in 1 hour. Thus we will set

infusion pump at 50 mL/hr