Intravenous medications are oculus solutions that are administered directly into a vein. Some medication's are manufactured at a higher concentration and prescribed. For these medication's a portion of the more concentrated stock solution is mixed with a sterile solution that does not contain the drug before being a miniature to a patient.If a doctor orders an injection of a 1.36% solution of a medication how many milliliters of the diluted solution can be prepared from 52.5 ML's of a 20% solution of the medication? When solving a war problem, one of the first things you should do is determine what type of calculation is necessary to answer the question that is being asked what type of calculation is needed to solve this problem.
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- The 20% solution means that 20% of the volume is the active drug. - Calculate the amount of active drug in 52.5 mL of the 20% solution: \[ \text{Amount of active drug} = 0.20 \times 52.5 \, \text{mL} = 10.5 \, \text{mL} \] Show more…
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