Calculate the following dosages based on kilogram of body weight. Round weights and answers to the nearest whole number
The physician has ordered a medication to be given 8 mg/kg twice daily. The child weighs 36 lb. How much will be given per day?
256 mg per day
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After ventilating a newly born infant by bag-valve-mask device, you note significant gastric distention that is beginning to interfere with ventilation. On attempting to pass a nasogastric tube to decompress the stomach, you find that there is an obstruction bilaterally at the level of the posterior nasopharynx. Which of the following choices indicates the likely problem and the action that
should be taken? A) Choanal atresia; rotate the nasogastric tube back and forth between your fingers as you apply steady pressure in a posterior direction B) Cleft palate; rotate the nasogastric tube back and forth between your fingers as you apply steady pressure in a posterior direction C) Cleft palate; intubate the trachea and pass an orogastric tube D) Choanal atresia; intubate the trachea and pass an orogastric tube
Which of these conditions involves an infection in the retroperitoneal portion of the abdomen?
A) Gastroenteritis B) Hepatitis C) Pancreatitis D) Inflamed spleen
Infected gastrostomy due to abdominal wall cellulitis:
A) Z43.1, L03.311. B) K94.22, L03.311. C) K94.22, L03.319. D) Z93.1, L03.319.
Which of the following ly describes insertion of a Combitube?
A. Place the patient's neck in a flexed position and insert the Combitube through the left side of the patient's mouth. B. Open the mouth with the tongue-jaw lift maneuver and insert the Combitube in the midline of the patient's mouth. C. Hyperextend the patient's neck and insert the Combitube in the midline of the patient's mouth. D. Open the patient's airway with a jaw-thrust maneuver and insert the Combitube through the right side of the patient's mouth.