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A pharmacist weighs 2.65 g of acetaminophen powder for compounding capsules instead of the required 2.5 g. What is the percentage of error? Round to the nearest tenth, except no trailing zeros.    Answer: [answer]%

There is a shortage of 7.5% w/v sodium bicarbonate. To make it, it must be compounded from stock solutions of 8.4% w/v sodium bicarbonate and 4.2% w/v sodium bicarbonate. How many milliliters of each solution are required to prepare a 500 mL supply of the 7.5% solution? Please round your answers to the nearest whole number.   Answer:  [answer1] mL of 4.2% w/v sodium bicarbonate [answer2] mL of 8.4% w/v sodium bicarbonate

How many grams of gabapentin powder and how many grams of a cream base need to be combined to obtain 360 g of 6% gabapentin cream? Round to the nearest tenth, except no trailing zeros. Answer: [answer1]g of gabapentin powder [answer2]g of cream base

An 65 kg patient is getting a heparin infusion for postsurgical management of a mechanical heart valve. Their infusion needs to run at 14 units/kg/hr. Your hospital has available Heparin 25,000 units in a 250 mL 0.45% NaCl premade IV bag. What is their infusion rate in mL/hr? Please round your final answer to one decimal place, except no trailing zeros.  Answer: [answer]mL/hr

A patient is receiving D5W with electrolytes at a rate of 80 mL/hr for 18 hours. The solution contains 0.045% potassium chloride. How many milliequivalents of potassium chloride will the patient receive during this infusion? Round to the nearest tenth, except no trailing zeros. Note: the molecular weight of KCl is 74.5 and the valence of potassium is 1.   Answer: [answer] mEq 

You are using ceftriaxone to treat a complicated intraabdominal infection in a pediatric patient weighing 44 lbs. The recommended dose is 100 mg/kg/day divided every 12 hours infused over 30 minutes. You have available the 1 g vial (concentration of 100mg/mL) and are preparing one dose by adding the ceftriaxone to a 100mL bag of NS. What is the infusion rate in mL/hr for one dose? Please round the final answer to the nearest whole number.  Answer: [answer]mL/hr

A pharmacist dissolves 0.85 grams of a drug in 12 mL of propylene glycol (sp. gr. 1.04). What is the percent strength (w/w) of the drug in the solution? Round to the nearest tenth, except no trailing zeros.  Answer: [answer]%

Bilateral contraction of the external oblique abdominis assists forced expiration mainly by:

Which lung is described as being larger and having three lobes (superior, middle, and inferior)? [BLANK-1] (1 Mark)

The pubic symphysis is best described as: