Calculate the daily maintenance fluid volume

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1. A 1 year old client with otitis media requires oral antibiotics. The client weighs 22 lbs.

Order: Amoxicillin suspension 40 mg/kg/day BID

Concentration: 400 mg/5 mL

How many mL will you give per dose?

2. A 5 year old client with bacterial meningitis requires IV antibiotics. The client weighs 18 kg.

Order: Ceftriaxone 100 mg/kg/day IV once daily

Concentration: 40 mg/mL

How many mL will you administer?

3. Using the Holliday-Segar Method, calculate the daily maintenance fluid volume (in mL) and the hourly infusion rate (in mL/h) for a child who weighs 12kg.

4. An order reads: Gentamicin sulfate 10mg in 50 mL normal saline to be administered over 30 minutes via a microdrip tubing set.

The nurse sets the flow rate at how many drops per minute (gtt/min)?

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