Medical Math
The doctor asks for this amount of Cerenia for a 14kg patient.
What is 1.4mL?
These two terms are used to describe abnormal respiration sounds resulting from a partial or complete airway obstruction.
What are Stridor and Stertor?
A catheter that is place in the front arm is described as being place in this vein.
What is the Cephalic Vein?
This planet is nearest to the Sun.
What is Mercury?
You are preparing a bag of fluids with KCl. This amount of KCl (2mEq/mL) is added to a liter of LRS that has 750mL remaining to equate to 40mEq/L.
What is 15mL?
This term is used to describe a patient that is breathing at a normal rate an rhythm.
What is Eupnic?
The active ingredient in Rat Baits that cause coagulation issues is this.
What is Bromethalin?
This animal is known for have a long, sword like tooth protruding through its face and is known as "The Unicorn of the Ocean"
What is a Narwhal.
You are adding dextrose to a liter bag of LRS. The orders were originally for 2.5%, but the doctor is requesting it be made to 5%. This amount of Dextrose (50%) is to be added to the 1L bag that is already at 2.5% to equate to a final concentration of 5%.
What is 50mL?
This term is used to when the amount of potassium in a patients blood is too low.
What is hypokalemia?
The chemical in chocolate that is harmful to dogs is this.
What is Theobromine?
This is the rarest M&M Color.
What is Brown.
You the doctor has requested a dose of Apomorphine (3mg/mL) for a patient that has digested chocolate. This is the volume needed if the patient weighs 35kg and the doctor has requested a 0.04mg/kg dose.
What is 0.47mL?
This term is used to describe a cancer derived from epithelial tissues.
What is carcinoma?
The Abbreviation "ET" in "ET tube" stands for this.
What is Endotracheal?
This is the definition of Cynophobia
What is fear of dogs.
The doctor has requested a Fentanyl CRI for a patient. The patient weighs 6.4kg and the doctor has requested a 3mg/kg/hr CRI to be diluted to 12mL and run at 1mL/hr. The volume of NaCl needed is this.
What is 7.4mL?
Solution: 6.4kg x 3mg/kg/hr = 19.2mg/hr
19.2mg/hr / 50mg/mL = 0.384mL/hr
0.384mL/hr x 12hr = 4.6mL FENTANYL
12mL - 4.6mL = 7.4mL NaCl
This term is used to describe the action of listening to the sounds of the heart/lungs with a stethoscope.
What is Auscultation?
This common plant can cause sever injury to the liver if ingested.
What is Sago Palm?
These are the four main characters of the show Golden Girls.
Who are Blanche, Dorothy, Rose and Sophia.