Your patient Jane Doe weighs 198 lb. You have a 1 L bag of saline (from which you have removed 10 mL) and a drug pump which can

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Your patient Jane Doe weighs 198 lb. You have a 1 L bag of saline (from which you have
removed 10 mL) and a drug pump which can be set to run between 1 and 10 mL/min. She has
an order for the drug CONVERTINTM to be given at a dose of 300 ug kg-1 hr¹. A vial of
CONVERTINTM contains 90 mg of the drug in 10 mL of saline.
After adding the vial of CONVERTIN™ to the bag of saline and connecting it via the pump to
the patient's IV line, at what rate should the pump be set in order to deliver the drug dose as
ordered?
Hint: Rate = dose+ concentration
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