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The prescriber ordered Navane 4mg IM. two times a day.The lable on the vial reads 5mg/ml....

The prescriber ordered Navane 4mg IM. two times a day.The lable on the vial reads 5mg/ml. calculate how many milliliter of this drug you will administer?

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Navane: "it is drug of choice for psychotic disorder and mental retardation"

Normally Navane 5mg/ml but incase of the following above information the physician prescribe that 4mg/ml. Intramuscular twice a day.so 2mg of Navane is dissolved in 2.2 ml of sterile water at the morning and again 2mg/ml 2.2 ml of sterile water dissolved in the Navane in the evening.

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