Question

You wish to give a patient $5liters$ of fluid intravenously in $24hours.$

If this is done at a constant rate, how many $cc$ must be given per minute?

Answer 1

Finding the number of $cc$ given per minute:

Given,

A patient $5liters$ of fluid intravenously in $24hours.$

We know that,

$1liter$ $=1000mi-liter$

$1Hour$$=60minute$

So,

$\Rightarrow 5liter$ $=5\times 1000$

$=5000mi-liter$

$\Rightarrow 24$ Hour$=24\times 60$

$=1440$ minutes

Flow is constant rate

Per minute$=\frac{5000}{1440}$

$=3.47$ mi-liter per minute

$=0.1173$ ounce per minute

[$1$Ounce $=29.573$ mi-liter]

we know that

$1cc=1mL$

Hence, per minute $3.47cc$ must give to the patient.