A client is receiving an IV solution of sodium chloride 0.9% with amiodarone at 17 ml/hour. How many mg/minute of amiodarone is infusing?

To determine how many milligrams of amiodarone are infusing per minute, it’s essential to know the concentration of the amiodarone in the IV solution, along with the rate at which the solution is being administered.

Assuming the solution contains amiodarone and is being infused at a rate of 17 ml/hour, it would be converted to a per-minute rate by dividing by the number of minutes in an hour, which is 60. Therefore, the infusion rate in ml per minute is calculated as follows:

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17 \text{ ml/hour} \div 60 \text{ minutes/hour} \approx 0.2833 \text{ ml/minute}

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Next, to find out how many mg of amiodarone is administered per minute, we need to multiply the volume infused per minute by the concentration of amiodarone in that volume. If there is, for example, a concentration of 3 mg per ml in the IV solution, the total amount of amiodarone infused per minute would be:

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0.2833 \text{ ml/minute} \times 3 \text{ mg/ml} \approx 0.85 \text{ mg