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58 You are caring for a neonate in the NICU who is receiving Gentamycin IV every 8 hours. The medication is administered via syringe pump using microbore tubing that holds 2 mLs of fluid. You’ve evaluated the medication to be a safe and therapeutic dose. The medication in the syringe is  7 mLs. The hospital pharmacy label on the syringe has instructions to give the medication over 30 minutes, which corresponds with the information you found in your drug book. How many mLs per hour would you set the syringe pump to infuse the medication and flush to the patient in the 30 minute time period? (please provide only a numeric answer)

Normally, after an adult ingests the 75 grams of glucose for the glucose tolerance test, the glucose level should return to normal within how many minutes?

Which of the following is a milk sugar that sometimes cannot be digested by healthy individuals?

Which of the following techniques is used to overcome the threat of problems related to the breech position during delivery?

Fragile X syndrome occurs:

A pediatrician is testing baby Rosaria. The doctor assesses Rosaria’s neurological development, reflexes, and reactions to people and objects. Rosaria’s pediatrician is using the:

Rubella, also known as _____, is a maternal disease that can cause prenatal defects.

Which of the following maternal diseases carries the risk of delivering very large infants, weighing 10 pounds or more?

Sidra has a baby that was born at 27 weeks. Her baby is considered a(n):

_____ is the way an individual’s genotype is expressed in observable and measurable characteristics.