Pharmacy Calculations
A prescriptions requires 250mg of a drug, available as a 100mg/5mL suspension. How many milliliters should be dispensed for one dose?
What is 12.5mL?
This medication, often administered nasally, is used to reverse opioid overdoses by rapidly binding to opioid receptors.
What is Naloxone (Narcan)?
This abbreviation, meaning "as needed", is often seen on prescriptions for pain or nausea medications.
What is PRN?
This brand name for the generic ibuprofen is commonly used to relieve pain and reduce inflammation.
What is Advil (or Motrin)?
This common pharmacy tool, used to grind herbs and medicines, is called a mortar, and what?
What is a pestle?
A patient needs 150mg of a drug daily, split into 3 equal doses. If the drug comes as a 25mg/mL solution, how many milliliters are needed for each dose?
What is 2mL?
Flumazenil is the antidote choice for overdoses of this class of drugs, commonly used to treat anxiety or insomnia.
What are Benzodiazepines?
This two-letter abbreviation indicates a medication should be taken by mouth.
What is PO?
Prozac is the brand name for this generic antidepressant, often prescribed for major depressive disorder.
What is Fluoxetine?
This pain-relieving drug, derived from willow bark, was first marketed by Bayer is 1899.
What is Aspirin?
A 200mL IV bag contains 1 gram of a drug. If the infusion runs at 20mL/hour, how many milligrams of the drug are delivered per hour?
This antidote, often used in alcohol poisoning cases, inhibits the formation of toxic metabolites from methanol or ethylene glycol overdoses.
What is Fomepizole? (Antizol)
This abbreviation, meaning "every other day", is used to specify an alternating-day dosing schedule.
What is QOD?
This generic cholesterol-lowering drug is sold under the brand name Lipitor.
What is Atorvastatin?
In the 1920's this antibiotic, discovered by Alexander Fleming, revolutionized medicine by fighting bacterial infections.
What is Penicillin?
A patient weighing 50kg requires a 10mg/kg dose of a medication. If the drug is available as a 25mg/mL solution, how many milliliters are needed for one dose?
What is 20mL?
This antidote is used to reverse the anticoagulant effects of heparin overdose by binding to it and neutralizing its activity.
What is Protamine Sulfate?
This abbreviation, meaning "right eye", is used in prescriptions for ophthalmic medications.
What is OD?
The brand name Synthroid corresponds to this generic medication used to treat hypothyroidism.
What is Levothyroxine?
This 19th-century pharmacist, John Pemberton, created a famous soft drink originally sold as medicine.
What is Coca-Cola?
A medication contains 500mg of a drug in a 10mL vial. If a patient requires a 125mg dose, how many milliliters should be administered?
What is 2.5mL?
This medication, given intravenously, is used to treat cyanide poisoning by facilitating the formation of a less toxic compound excreted by the kidneys.
What is Sodium Thiosulfate?
This abbreviation, meaning "before meals", is used to instruct patients to take a medication prior to eating.
What is AC?
This generic antibiotic, often used for respiratory infections, is marketed under the brand name Zithromax?
What is Azithromycin?
This German company, founded in 1668, is one of the oldest pharmaceutical companies still operating today.
What is Merck?