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02-13-2007, 12:27 AM
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| Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2007
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| Can someone work this out Hi, I need some urgent help with this drug calculation. You are required to give 300 micrograms of drug x. The ampoule contains 1:5000 solution in 5 ml. How much are you going to give? 1:5000 = 1 gram in 5000mls. I'm not sure what the formula is. It would be great if someone could show me step for step.  |
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02-13-2007, 06:35 PM
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| Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Brisbane, Australia
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 | Re: Can someone work this out thats really confusioning. the way i see that, is that there is 1 gram in 5000mLs, or 1gram in 5 litres. so that would be 20mg in 1 litre. convert that to micrograms, and thats 20,000 mcg in 1000mls. so thats 20mcg in 1mL. so if u wanted to give 300mcg, you would give 15mLs. im not sure if thats correct, but thats what ive come up with. |
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02-14-2007, 01:35 AM
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| Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2007
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| Re: Question Thanks for your suggestion. How do you get 20mgs? Would you convert the micrograms to grams? Change 300mcg to grams-How would you do that. or Would you change grams to micrograms? |
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02-26-2007, 02:32 PM
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| Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2007
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| Re: Can someone work this out 1 gram in 5000 ml = 1000 mg in 5000 ml= 1 mg in 5 ml= 1000 mcg in 5 ml To give 300 mcg, give 0.3 X 5 = 1.5 ml A very bizarre calculation question. |
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