Your patient weighs 75 kg and you are ordered to infuse 250 mg Dobutamine in 500 ml NS at 10 mcg/kg/min. How many milligrams of Dobutamine will infuse per hour?

Question

Your patient weighs 75 kg and you are ordered to infuse 250 mg Dobutamine in 500 ml NS at 10 mcg/kg/min. How many milligrams of Dobutamine will infuse per hour?  

Answer 1

10 mcg/kg/min x 75 kg x 60 min/hour x 1 mg/1000 mcg = 45 mg/hour