Your patient is an infant with a new onset of seizures. The physician has ordered Dilantin 6.5 mg/min IV The safe dose r

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Your patient is an infant with a new onset of seizures. The
physician has ordered Dilantin 6.5 mg/min IV The safe dose range
for pediatric patients 1-3 mg/kg/min or 50 mg/min, whichever is
slower. The infant weighs 9 lbs 5 oz and the medication label reads
50 mg/mL.
a) What is the safe dose range for this
patient?
b) Is the dose safe?
c) Assuming that the dose is safe, at what rate would you
set the pump in mL/hr?