Question

Dopamine is infusing. The bottle states dopamine 800 mg, and it's mixed in 500 mL of D5W. The I.V. pump in your patient's room is set at 15 mL, and the patient weighs 60 kg (60,000 g). At how many mcg/kg/minute is the patient's dopamine infusing? many mcg/kg/minute is the

Answer 1

Solution:

800 mg/ 500 ml X 1000 mcg/ 1mg X 15 ml/60 min = X

Therefore X = 6.7 mcg/kg/minute

So 6.7 mcg/kg/minute dopamine infusing to the patient.