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IV Drip Calculation Practice Problems

This document provides practice problems for calculating infusion rates for intravenous drips. It includes 16 problems calculating things like total volume, infusion time, drops per minute, and units per hour based on formulas provided. The formulas calculate infusion rate based on total volume and time, time based on volume and rate, and drops per minute based on volume, time, and the drop factor of the administration set. Answers to the problems are provided.

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IV Drip Calculation Practice Problems

This document provides practice problems for calculating infusion rates for intravenous drips. It includes 16 problems calculating things like total volume, infusion time, drops per minute, and units per hour based on formulas provided. The formulas calculate infusion rate based on total volume and time, time based on volume and rate, and drops per minute based on volume, time, and the drop factor of the administration set. Answers to the problems are provided.

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ASC Lab IV Drip Calculation* Practice Problems

IV Formulas: 1. Infusion Rate (mL/hr) = Total Volume in mL Infusion Time in hr (How much volume is administered each hour)

2. Infusion Time in hrs = Total Volume in mL (How long it will take to mL/hr administer the total volume) 3. Drops/minute = Total Volume in mL x drop factor (Number of drops/min Time in minutes from the administration set to deliver the desired hourly volume)
1. An IV of 500 mL is to infuse in 2 hours. What is the infusion rate?

2. An IV is infusing at 25 mL/hr. A 250 mL bag of NS is hanging. How long will it take to infuse?

3. A 1000 mL bag of NS is hanging, 640 mL remains in the bag. The order is for 1 liter IV every 8 hours. How much longer will it take to complete this infusion? State time as a decimal and as hours and minutes.

4. A piggyback contains 500 mg of antibiotic in 100 mL of D5W. The label states Infuse at 125 mg/hour. What infusion rate will you set on the pump?

*Round all mL/hr and drops/minute to whole numbers. 5. Infuse 500 mL of D10W over 3 hours. How many mL/hr (round to nearest whole number)? We have no IV pumps, the administration set delivers 15 gtt/mL. At what rate will you adjust the administration set?

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6. The MD orders 1L of NS IV every 10 hours. 750 mL remain. What should the infusion rate be?

7. The IV order reads D5W 500 mL IV over 4 hours. The administration set delivers 10 drops/mL. How many drops/minute will you deliver?

8. An IV is infusing at 75 mL/hr. The 250 mL bag was hung at 1200 and 225 mL remain. How long will it take to infuse the remainder?

9. A 1000 mL yellow bag was hung on a patient in the ER. How many drops/minute will be required to infuse the IV in 6 hours? The administration set delivers 20 drops/mL.

10. A patient is scheduled for a procedure at 1300. She is to receive 1 g of antibiotic immediately before the procedure. The antibiotic is in a 50 mL bag of D5W and the label states, Infuse 500 mg/hr. What will the infusion rate on the pump be? At what time will you start the infusion?

11. How many mL/hour will be required to deliver 820 mL of IV fluid in 5 hours?

12. An IV is started for hydration on a patient prior to an angiogram. The order reads, administer 1000 mL at 175 ml/hr. How long will it take to infuse this IV?

13. An IV is infusing at 50 mL/hr and the IV pump fails. 650 mL remain in the IV bag and the administration set you get in the supply room delivers 60 drops/mL. How many drops/minute will you deliver?

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14. An IV of Heparin 25,000 units in 500 mL of D5W is hanging. The MD orders Heparin 1000 units/hour IV. What will the IV rate be?

15. Heparin is infusing at 30 mL/hr. The IV bag contains 25,000 units of heparin in 500 mL of D5W. How many units is the patient receiving each hour?

16. Regular insulin is ordered IV at 4 units/hour. The IV bag contains 100 units of regular insulin in 100 mL of D5W. What should the IV rate be?

Answers: 1. 250 mL/hr 2. 10 hours 3. 5.12 hrs, 5 hrs 7 min 4. 25mL/hr 5. 167 mL/hr, 42 drops/min 6. 100 mL/hr 7. 21 drops/min 8. 3 hr 9. 56 drops/min 10. 25 mL/hr, 1100 11. 164 mL/hr 12. 5.7 hr, 5 hr 42 min 13. 50 drops/min 14. 20 mL/hr 15. 1500 units/hr 16. 4 mL/hr

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