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Your patient has been receiving a medication dose of 1 mL every 12 hours.  The doctor asks you to only give half of the dose the next time their dose is due.   When you go to write down the total volume you gave, you write it as: .5 mL Would this be the correct way to write this?  

You are given undiluted serum to perform a 4-fold serial dilution on.  What is the dilution factor in: Vial 2? [1] Vial 4? [4]  

You would have a 20% solution if this were reconstituted with 15 mL of a diluent.

Holly’s blender makes a noise similar to the can opener, but her cat doesn’t get up from the sofa when it hears it. This demonstrates:

Pancake the 17.2 kg poodle needs to be put on CRI. He needs a 100 mg/mL drug at a rate of 5 mg/kg/hr. He is on a fluid rate of 58 mL/hr and currently has 870 mL left in his fluid bag. What is the hourly CRI rate in mL/hr? [cri] How many hours will his fluid bag last? [bag] How many milliliters of this drug will you infuse the bag with? [mL]  

A 12 kg dog is on a fluid rate of 100 mL/kg/24 hr and has 690 mL left in her fluid bag, and needs it to be infused with a CRI of 70 mg/kg/24 hr.  The drug comes in a 7% solution. What is their hourly fluid rate to be given at? [b] What is the hourly volume rate of the CRI? [cri] What volume of the drug will be added to the fluid bag? [v]

You have this bottle and are asked to make a 30 mg/mL solution.  How many milliliters of diluent will you add?

As Rescorla and Wagner correctly theorized, a stimulus will only become a CS when it is _____ the UCS.

Using the resource provided, what insulin should be utilised in the management of diabetic ketoacidosis?

A proposed antibiotic blocks the helicase enzyme in bacteria. What effect would this most directly have?