Instruction: Calculate the drug dose prescribed based on the client’s body weight:
Note: Total number of points is 20
1. How many mgs. of Cupric Chloride injection would be needed for a child weighing 5 lbs. if the dose to
be given is 20 mg/kg/day? You would give 40 mg.
2. If Amoxicillin is to be given to a child weighing 11 lbs. and the recommended dose is 20 mg/kg/day in
divided doses Q8 hour.
a. the total daily dose is 100 mgs.?
b. you will give 33.3 mg. every 8 hours?
c. If the Amoxicillin suspension contains 50 mg/mL, the total daily dose for the child would be 2 mL?
Round to the nearest whole mL
d. the total volume of suspension for each dose is ______mL? Round to thnearest tenth mL.
3. Amikacin Sulfate is ordered for a 99 lbs. child. The recommended dose is 5 mg/kg.
a. The total dose is _____mgs?
b. If the medicine is supplied as a solution of 500 mgs/2 ml in a disposable syringe, you would be giving
_____ml to the child?
c. How many ml of the solution would be wasted? _______
d. If 250 mgs. Of the drug were contained in 5 ml of suspension, how many ml of drug would be used?
___________
4. A 44 lbs. child is to be given 40 mgs/kg of Cephalosporin in 4 equally divided doses.
a. The total daily dose is _______mgs?
b. Each individual dose is equal to ______mgs?
c. If the solution contains 75 mgs/2 ml, one individual dose is ____mgs?
5. Oxacillin is to be given 50mgs/kg/day in divided doses Q6 hour.
a. the total daily dose for a child weighing 30 kg is _____mgs?
b. the individual dose for this child is ______mgs?
6. Oxacillin is to be given to a 5.5 lbs. child.
a. Based on the recommended dose of 25 mgs/kg/day, the total daily dose would be ______mgs?
b. This dosage is to be equally divided and administered Q6 hour. Drug to be used for each individual
dose is equal to _____mgs?
7. It is recommended that 25 mgs/kg of Methicillin Sodium be given Q6 hour to a child weighing 13.2 lbs.
a. you would need ____mgs each dose?
b. over a 24-hour period, you will be needing a total of _____mgs for the child?
8. Physician orders Infliximab (Remicade) 3 mg/kg, IV, one dose today. The pharmacy supplies Infliximab
in a vial that contains 100/mL The patient weighs 56 kg. You would give ______mL. Round to the nearest
tenth mL.
9. Physician orders Palifermin (Kepivance) 60 mcg/kg, IV, once daily for 3 days. The pharmacy supplies
Palifermin in a vial that contains 5 mg/ml. The patient weighs 64.3 kg. You would give _____mL.
