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All right, guys.
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So in this particular question, we have a 350 -pound patient that prescribed a medication with a recommended dose every 12 hours.
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You receive an order to give this patient 1 ,500 milligrams every 12 hours, and we would like to find out if this is the recommended range.
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If not, what is the recommended range? we need to show our work.
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All right, so the first thing that we need to do, our patient's weight is in pounds our dose of our dose of.
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Instructions around kilograms.
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So the first thing we need to do is we need to take 350 and we need to divide it by 2 .2 because there are 2 .2 pounds in every one kilogram.
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So when we do that math, when we take 350 and we divide it by 2 .2, we are left with a patient that weighs 159 kilograms.
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Okay.
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So then we need to take that weight and we need to decide if the dosage that we've been giving is going to be adequate.
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So a recommended dose right here says it is 50 to 100 milligrams per kilogram.
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So we just set that up really simply.
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So we have 159 kilograms here.
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And then we want to give 50, this is our low end, milligrams per kilogram...