Directions: Calculate the IV Medication and Infusion Rates

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Essay

Directions: Calculate the IV medication and infusion rates.Use a calculator for safe dose range calculations,multiplication,and long division as desired.Verify results using DE-style equations where requested.If the order is unsafe,do not proceed with the math.Label answers.
Diltiazem hydrochloride IV maintenance drip infusion has been ordered for a patient diagnosed with atrial flutter,who was treated on admission with a bolus IV dose to lower the ventricular pulse rate.
Order: Titrate the diltiazem HC1 at 5-15 mg per hr to maintain a ventricular pulse rate 90 beats per minute (bpm).Increase by increments of 5 mg per hr
Available: diltiazem hydrochloride 100 mg per 100 mL NS
A)With what IV dose in mg per hr will the nurse initiate the infusion?
B)Estimated initial flow rate on an EID:
C)DA equation for flow rate:
D)Evaluation: The patient's ventricular pulse rate is 100 bpm at the end of the first hour.
E)IV dose in mg per hr to be administered:
F)Estimated flow rate:
G)DA equation for flow rate:
H)Evaluation:

• A)With what IV dose in mg per hr will the nurse initiate the infusion?
• B)Estimated initial flow rate on an EID:
• C)DA equation for flow rate:
• D)Evaluation: The patient's ventricular pulse rate is 100 bpm at the end of the first hour.
• E)IV dose in mg per hr to be administered:
• F)Estimated flow rate:
• G)DA equation for flow rate:
• H)Evaluation:

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