HCP prescribes Augmentin 250mg by mouth 8 every hours. The medication available is a 250mL bulk bottle with a 75m/tsp concentration.
a) What is the individual dose? (round to the nearest tenth).
b) What is the 24hr dose in mg?
please show the steps for the Dimensional Analysis method. *please don't skip any steps so i can understand*
The answer is very simple
a) We know that One US teaspoon = 5ml
Concentration of medication provided = 75mg/tsp
which can be also written as 75mg/5ml (Since 1 tspn = 5ml)
Prescribed dose per 8 hours = 250mg
Which means the individual dose in every 8 hour = 250mg / 75mg/5mL = 250mg / 15mg/mL = 16.7mL
b) We know that, HCP prescribes Augmentin 250mg by mouth 8 every hours which canbe written as 250mg/8hr
which means in a span of 24hours, total dose given would be 24hr x 250mg/8hr = 3 x 250mg = 750 mg
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