Your patient weighs 15 kg and is scheduled for to have an abdominal exploratory. You are instructed to provide 0.9% sodium chloride IV at a rate of 30ml/kg/hr. What will be the fluid rate be for your IV pump?

Step-by-step explanation:

From the question we are told that:

Mass

Amount of NaCl IV

Rate

Generally the equation for fluid rate be for your IV pump is mathematically given by

Since

Rate is

30ml/kg/hr at 1kg patient Weight

Therefore

255 calories.

Step-by-step explanation:

There are many different ways to solve this, but I only know two.

First I noticed that 16 and 24 were both divisible by 4 so divided 16 by 4 and got 4. Then I divided 170 by 4 and got 42.5. So then I divided 24 by 4 and got 6. I multiplied 6 by 255.

OR

Divide 170 by 16 which gave me 10.625 which is the unit rate or constant of proportionality. So I multiplied 10.625 by 24 and got 255.