A pediatric client with neuroblastoma is scheduled to receive a cyclophosphamide infusion. The client's height is and weight is . The provider prescribes cyclophosphamide IV to infuse continuously over . The Mosteller formula for calculating Body Surface Area (BSA) is provided: . The pharmacy dispenses reconstituted cyclophosphamide with a concentration of . The nurse must draw up the prescribed dose and inject it into a bag of sodium chloride for administration.
What should the nurse set the intravenous infusion pump rate to in mL/hr? (Round the final answer to the nearest tenth.)
Cevap: 49.9 mL/hr
Cevap
49.9
The correct infusion rate is determined by accurately calculating the body surface area (1.2 m^2), using it to find the total medication dose (990 mg), determining the medication volume based on concentration (49.5 mL), adding this medication volume to the base IV fluid volume to find the total volume (199.5 mL), and dividing by the total infusion time (4 hours). Finally, the unrounded rate of 49.875 mL/hr must be correctly rounded to the nearest tenth (49.9 mL/hr).
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Safe parenteral therapy administration requires accurate multi-step calculation of Body Surface Area (BSA), appropriate conversion of dose to volume, and inclusion of the medication volume into the total diluent volume when programming continuous infusion pump rates.