I am a slower learner (not dumb) just slow on picking up on new/unfamiliar material. RN Kid I don’t understand how I’m able to immediately understand all this med math after just watching your videos 1 time through… I start my ADN nursing program in the fall and I can honestly say I’m no longer stressed about taking my med math exams! You have done the lord’s work, thank you so very much! Someone needs to hire you as a teacher
You do such a great job explaining everything in all of your videos. You break everything down step by step and that is very helpful for me, and I'm sure for everyone else. You keep making these videos as I am learning a lot from you, I didn't do so well with my Instructor as they don't explain it in detail.
He has explained in a very difficult way. The simplest way to do it is: we have 15 drops in one ml so for 1000ml we have 15000drops. It should be divided on 8 hours. Which gives us the drops/hour rate and if we change 8hrs to minutes=8*60=480 mins and we divide 15000 drops on 480 minutes, it's the drops/min speed. And if we want to find drops/sec, we should change 8 hrs to seconds and then divide 15000 drops on it. That's it. For instance, if you have 500ml normal saline and you want to infuse it in a 60 drops/ml iv line during 60 minutes. The formula is: 500ml=500*60=30000 drops We should divide 30000 drops on 60 minutes= 30000/60=500drops/min or 30000/3600=8.33~8drops/sec.
Nicely done! Another easy way or an abbreviated form of this: Take total volume to be infused x gtt/mL and then divide that answer by time in minutes. In other words 1000 mL x 15 gtts = 15000 and then divide by 480 = 31.25 gtt/min. Again nice video
This is not easy at all. The easiest way is to multiply 1000X15 over 480. Simplify 1000 to 100 and 480 to 48 and divide 1500 by 48. Done. Basically your amount to be infused times youe drip set over the time.
Hello, thank you so much, you wouldn't how much you are indirectly helping me with my studies, I'm an nursing student.. please Can you do solution and dissolution calculation?
Thank you so much!!! I am studying to take my PTCB exam, in hoping to get in a State Hospital position. I was struggling to understand the IV Flow rate questions, even through out the Pharmacy Tech Program. I get it now!! Thanks so much!!
Right now I only have drip rates and flow rates I think but when I get some free time I can make some pediatric ones. Probably won't be until at least February though :( Thanks for watching!
Hello from 2024, I see that there are no more videos in your channel but i am so glad I found this, ive been feeling so dumb in my pharm class because math 😢 but this made me learn it so quick and easy, thank you so so much, I hope you can make videos again!!!❤❤❤❤
Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Today I found your channel and I've learn everything I needed to learn that I had not in my Pharmacology class. I have asked questions to my professors and still was clueless of Dosage calculations. I'm beyond thankful for your channel. Please don't stop doing this!
so I just failed my test for this because im confused about knowing the difference on what equations call for the ml/hr step before the other steps. because some equations I would just have to do the ml/hr step then that was the answer. how do I know whether to continue the other steps? sorry if this was confusing
Typically its in the wording of the question. If it asks for a flow rate then its just ml/hour. If it asks for a drip rate then you need to take the extra steps and convert flow rate into a drip rate. A good tip to remember is that typically if a question gives you a drop factor, its going to want a drip rate. Don't stress about failing a test, it happens to all of us, just learn from it and keep going forward! Goodluck!
ok so when it ask ml/hr its just that one step? I have my final tomorrow on pharmacy math and if I dont pass it I fail the class and I've failed every quiz because im just confused.
What if you don't have the drop factor? How will you get it? Here you are given a volume of fluid to run for a certain hours? How do you get the drop rate of the that particular fluid?
Typically you will always get the drop factor in a question because in the real world the drop factor will be written on the package of the tubing. It's a silly question not giving you the drop factor because it would never happen in the real world
if your are referring to the drip factor like drips per ml, then that is always given to you. In real life it will be put on the packaging of the tubing.