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7. You are completing your report after delivering a patient to the emer- gency room, and you notice that the dopamine dose ordered by med- ical control is missing. To avoid any possible reprimands, you decide to determine the ordered dose based on the information available. The pa- tient weighs 176 pounds, and the I.V. infusion is flowing through a mi- crodrip administration set at 30 gtt/min. The label on the 500-milliliter bag of D-W reads “800 milligrams of dopamine added.” What was the original dose per kilogram per minute ordered? You are in the same situation as you were in problem 7. The patient weighs 220 pounds. The infusion set is a microdrip administration set. It is flowing at 30 gtt/min. The label on the 250-milliliter bag of D-W reads “200 milligrams of dopamine added.” What was the original dose per kilogram per minute ordered?