AEMT Practice Quiz question

[Dan216]

Hi guys,

I'm currently taking the advanced course online. I'm in the pharmacology section of the book and am kind of struggling with the math/conversion questions. I don't really have very many people to ask, so I thought I'd turn to you guys. Here it is:

During an attempted resuscitation of a 9-year-old boy in cardiac arrest, your paramedic partner asks you to prepare epinephrine in a dose of 0.01 mg/kg. The child's mother tells you that he weighs approximately 65 pounds. You have a prefilled syringe of epinephrine containing 1 mg in 10 mL. How many milliliters should be administered to this child?

Can someone explain this to me?

 

[Dan216]

Answers are:

A. 3.5 mL
B. 3 mL
C. 4.5 mL
D. 4 mL

 

[STXmedic]

So the first thing you need to do is conversion of units.

After you convert, you then need to figure out how many mgs you need to give.

Once you figure out how many mgs you need to give, how many mLs equals that dose of Epi?

 

[ffemt8978]

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