A supervising physician tasks you with preparing 0.3 mg dose of epinephrine for

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A supervising physician tasks you with preparing 0.3 mg dose of epinephrine for a 32 year old male patient experiencing symptoms of anaphylaxis moments after receiving an intradermal allergy injection. Epinephrine is available as a 1:1000 solution in a 30 mL vial containing 1 mg / ml. Calculate the correct dose to be administered to your patient. A supervising physician tasks you with preparing 0.3 mg dose of epinephrine for a 32 year old male patient experiencing symptoms of anaphylaxis moments after receiving an intradermal allergy injection. Epinephrine is available as a 1:1000 solution in a 30 mL vial containing 1 mg / ml. Calculate the correct dose to be administered to your patient.

Explanation / Answer

Here,

Dose required = 0.3 mg

As Epinephrine is available as a 1:1000 solution in a 30 ml vial containing 1 mg/ml.

Thus,1 ml of dose contains (30/1000) = 0.03 mg of Epinephrine.

Thus (0.3/0.03) = 10 ml of Epinephrine dose is required.

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