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You have a child with a fever who is 8 years old and weighs 24 kg. The Tylenol bottle you have in the medicine cabinet contains 160 mg/mL of acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol. Your child's required dosage is 118 mg/10 kg. What volume of liquid medicine would you give your child? You work in a pharmacy and are filling a prescription for a customer for Tamiflu, an anti-influenza drug. The prescription is for 50 mg of Tamiflu per day for a total of 5 days. The medication comes as an oral suspension with a concentration of 15 mg/mL. What volume of liquid medicine will you prepare for your customer? Your patient needs 600 mg of Ciprofloxacin to treat a UTI infection. The Cipro solution is labeled 10 mg/mL. What volume of liquid medicine would you give your patient?

          You have a child with a fever who is 8 years old and weighs 24 kg. The Tylenol bottle you have in the medicine cabinet contains 160 mg/mL of acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol. Your child's required dosage is 118 mg/10 kg. What volume of liquid medicine would you give your child?

You work in a pharmacy and are filling a prescription for a customer for Tamiflu, an anti-influenza drug. The prescription is for 50 mg of Tamiflu per day for a total of 5 days. The medication comes as an oral suspension with a concentration of 15 mg/mL. What volume of liquid medicine will you prepare for your customer?

Your patient needs 600 mg of Ciprofloxacin to treat a UTI infection. The Cipro solution is labeled 10 mg/mL. What volume of liquid medicine would you give your patient?

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Step 2: Total Tylenol = 118 mg/10 kg * 24 kg = 283.2 mg Step 3: Calculate the volume of liquid medicine to give to the child. Step 4: Volume = Total Tylenol / Concentration = 283.2 mg / 160 mg/mL = 1.77 mL Step 5: Calculate the total amount of Tamiflu needed for Show more…

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You have a child with a fever who is 8 years old and weighs 24 kg. The Tylenol bottle you have in the medicine cabinet contains 160 mg/mL of acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol. Your child's required dosage is 118 mg/10 kg. What volume of liquid medicine would you give your child? You work in a pharmacy and are filling a prescription for a customer for Tamiflu, an anti-influenza drug. The prescription is for 50 mg of Tamiflu per day for a total of 5 days. The medication comes as an oral suspension with a concentration of 15 mg/mL. What volume of liquid medicine will you prepare for your customer? Your patient needs 600 mg of Ciprofloxacin to treat a UTI infection. The Cipro solution is labeled 10 mg/mL. What volume of liquid medicine would you give your patient?

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00:01 So this is a dosage calculation question that has three sub questions.

00:05 Let's start from the first one.

00:06 So you have a child with a fever who is 8 years old and weighs 24kg.

00:12 The tylenolodot says the concentration of acetamidophon is 160 milligram per 5 militer.

00:22 And this is the active ingredient in tylenol.

00:24 Now the child required dose is 118 milligram per 10 kilogram.

00:30 So what volume of liquid medicine would you give to your child? so first of all, you want to calculate the total tylenol this kit will need.

00:39 So i set up this equation, 118 milligram divided by 10 kilogram, which is the concentration equals the total tylenol divided by the body weight, which is 24 kilogram.

00:52 So for the part that is on the left side of the equation, i multiply 2 .4 on top and bottom of the line, so they're equal.

01:04 So then you know that the total talanol equals 118 times 2 .4, which is 283 .2 milligram.

01:16 The next step, you want to calculate a volume that you want to give it to the child.

01:21 So you know the total talanol that the kit required is 283 .2 milligram.

01:29 Divide by the concentration.

01:31 So volume always equals the total divided by concentration.

01:35 And we know the concentration given by the question is 160 milligram per 5 milanliter.

01:41 So we just do a simple mass, 283 .2 milligram times 5 militer, divided by 160 milligram.

01:50 So you end up having 8 .85 militer.

01:53 So this is the volume of the tylenol that you're given to this.

01:59 Child who is 24 kilogram.

02:05 Okay, second question about tamiflu.

02:08 So tamiflu is an anti -flu drug...

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