Problema Solution
a doctor prescribes a 1000-cc intravenous bottle of medication to me given to a patient over an 8-hour period. the nurse must set the drip rate of the bottle. find the number of drops per minute if there are 15 drops per cc
Answer provided by our tutors
1000-cc intravenous bottle of medication has total of 1000*15 = 15000 drops
the drops must be given to the patient in 8 hours or total of 8 * 60 = 480 minutes
the rate of drops per minutes will be calculated by the formula (total number of drops)/(total number of minutes) that is
15000/480 = 31,25 drops per minute
The number of drops per minute is 31,25.