thank you for explaining as you go. I don't understand the dimensional method which everyone seems to love so this video was an absolute Godsend! As I understood it; weight in kg x rate/min, then divide that by the concentration mcg, then multiply by 60 to get the ml/hr. Just did a quiz and got all of them right :)
since I found this video when searching, I will add the following: if you get a difficult decimal and want to easily converts parts of a drop per second to 1 drop per # of seconds, divide 1/decimal. So If I calculated 0.5drops/sec, then 1/0.5= 1 drop per 2 seconds. If I calculate 0.0078gtt/sec, then 1/0.0078=128, so my drip rate is 1gtt/128sec or 1gtt/2min&8 sec. This really helped me when doing blood transfusions because I suck at fractions.
I was trying to refresh my memory on doing this by hand (too many pumps and pre-made charts) and this was first video that made sense. Thanks
thank you for explaining as you go. I don't understand the dimensional method which everyone seems to love so this video was an absolute Godsend! As I understood it; weight in kg x rate/min, then divide that by the concentration mcg, then multiply by 60 to get the ml/hr. Just did a quiz and got all of them right :)
I'm not sure how you just made this so easy... Thanks!
since I found this video when searching, I will add the following: if you get a difficult decimal and want to easily converts parts of a drop per second to 1 drop per # of seconds, divide 1/decimal. So If I calculated 0.5drops/sec, then 1/0.5= 1 drop per 2 seconds. If I calculate 0.0078gtt/sec, then 1/0.0078=128, so my drip rate is 1gtt/128sec or 1gtt/2min&8 sec. This really helped me when doing blood transfusions because I suck at fractions.