A physician orders 200 mg of a medication to be administered intramuscularly. In stock is a vial of this powdered medication that has the following statement on the side of the vial: "Constitute to 500 mg/mL with 1.8 mL diluent." Determine the volume that should be given.

What will be an ideal response?


200/500 = 0.4
mL

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