A patient is hospitalized for treatment of community-associated pneumonia. The physician orders 500 mg azithromycin in 250 mL D5W over 90 minutes. The hospital pharmacy has prepared a 250 mL bag of D5W with an azithromycin concentration of 2 mg/mL. Calculate the manual flow rate with 20 gtt/mL tubing: ________. (Round to the nearest whole number)
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
56 gtt/min
f = 55.56 gtt/min, rounded to 56 gtt/min
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