Question

A 39 kg dog needs a metoclopramide (5 mg/ml) CRI at 3 mg/kg/day. You have a 1L bag of Lactated Ringer's solution. The fluid rate is 5 ml/kg/hr. How many milliliters of metoclopramide should be added to the bag?

a. 25 ml

b. 20 ml

c. 15 ml

d. 5 ml

You need a 60 ml of 0.15% chlorhexidine solution. How many milliliters of 4% chlorhexidine will be needed?

a. 0.60 ml

b. 6 ml

c. 2.25 ml

d. 36 ml

A 18 kg dog needs an FLK (fentanyl, lidocaine, ketamine) CRI. All three of these medications will be added into the same 500 ml bag of fluids. The lidocaine 2% CRI is 0.04 mg/kg/min at 15 ml/hr. How many milliliters of lidocaine should be added to the bag?

a. 24 ml

b. 12 ml

c. 3.3 ml

d. 1.2 ml

Answer 1

No.1.

The dog weight is 39 kg

Order dose metoclopramide 3 mg/kg/day

So the dog needs,

Available metoclopramide 5 mg/ml

So

That means the dog required 23.4 ml of metoclopramide per day.

We have a 1L bag of Lactated Ringer's solution. The fluid rate is 5 ml/kg/hr.

So total fluid required is,

So per day the dog required,

So we have to add 23.4 ml in 4680 ml/day

in 1000 ml we have to add

Answer - d. 5 ml

No.2.

We need a 60 ml of 0.15 % Chlorhexidine solution

That means the solution contains

We have 4 % of chlorhexidine solution

So, imagine we need "x" ml of Solution

That means

"x" ml =

"x" ml  

Answer - We need 2.25 ml of 4 % solution.