From a Transcription Error, a Patient Received an Overdose of a Prescribed

question 20

Short Answer

From a transcription error, a patient received an overdose of a prescribed medication. If the therapeutic index of the medication is 10 and the median effective dose is 2, the nurse would calculate as the median lethal dose for the medication as _____.

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