An 80-year-old patient with internal bleeding is admitted through the emergency room after a motor vehicle accident. The physician has ordered 2 units of packed red blood cells (1 unit is 250 mL) to infuse over 1 hour each
The drip rate on the blood administration set is10 gtt/mL. The nurse administers how many drops per minute to infuse the blood as ordered? A) 47
B) 42
C) 37
D) 32
B
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Use the following ratio to determine how many drops of fluid to administer per minute:
Using the information from this problem:
Because it is not possible to deliver 0.7 of a drop, round 41.7 to 42 minutes
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