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Ten cockatiels consume a total of approximately 60 mL/day of water. How many mg of tetracycline powder should you add to the daily measured drinking water so that each 100-g bird receives 10 mg/kg/day? ____ mg a day total

You are preparing an insulin drip. If you add 1 U of insulin/100 mL of IV fluid, how many units will you add to the 1-L bag of fluids? ___ U

What is the most likely cause of respiratory distress in a dog that has suffered from a choking episode?

Your patient is a 42-lb shepherd mix with a history of vomiting. The order reads: metoclopramide HCl (5 mg/mL); give 0.3 mg/kg IM q6h prn. How many mg will you deliver? ____ mg

You are preparing an insulin drip. You have a 1L bag of fluids with 10 units of insulin added. The insulin drip is to be administered at 1 U/h. How many mL will this be per hour? ____ U/100 mL

You give 5 mg of a drug to a 10-kg animal. What is the dose of the drug in mg/kg? ____ mg/kg

How many mL will you draw up to administer 25 units of epoetin (2000 U/mL)?

A 300-g bird must be tube fed 2 mL liquid formula/100 g body weight three times daily. One gram of powdered formula will yield 15 mL of liquid formula after reconstitution, which is good for 24 hours only. How many mL of reconstituted formula should you measure out for a 24-hour period, assuming no waste? ____ mL

How much sodium chloride is required to produce 5 L of 0.85% saline solution?  ____ g

A 5% dextrose solution is diluted with 100 mL of sterile water. The volume of the sterile water added is 40% of the volume of the 5% dextrose solution. What approximately is the new dextrose concentration? ____ %