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24. Five hundred ml of plasma protein fraction ls ordered to be given at 6 mi/min. With a drop factor of 15 gtt/ml. a) What is the amount to be infused per hour? Answer b) The drop rate per minute? Answer An infusion is running at 20 in 8 hours? gtt/min. With a drop factor of 10 gtt/ml. What amount will be infused 25. Answer 26. You have to give 75 ml of an IVPB in 45 minutes. The drop factor is 10. How many gtts/min would you run the IV? Answer AnⅣOf 500 ml of normal saline with 40 mEq KCL is to run 10 hours. The drop factor of the infusion set is 60 gtt/ml. What is the drip rate per minute? Answer

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24. The amount of plasma protein infused per minute is 6ml

drop rate is 15gtt per ml

amount infused per hour 6 ml × 60 = 360ml per hour

drop rate per minute = 15 × 6 = 90 drops per minute

25. 20 gtt per minute and drop facter 10 gtt per ml

so in one minute 2 ml will be infused

so in 8 hr infused amount = 2×60×8 = 960ml

26. 75 ml in 45 minutes = 1.66ml per minute

drop facter 10 means 1ml = 10 drops

so 1.66 ml = 16.6 drops per minute

27. 500 ml in 10 hours with drop 60gtt per ml

then 50 ml per hour

equals to o.83ml per minute

1 ml is 60 drops

0.83 ml = 50 drops per minute