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A medication has been ordered to tritrate between 2 mog/min and 10 mcg/min, with increments of 0.5 mcg/min every 10 minutes if the patient is not responding to the given dose. The patient is a 5 ft 10 and weighs 200 lb. The IV bag contains 10 mg of medication in 250 ml. of solution. Use dimensional analysis to calculate the IV rate associated with the minimum dose for this patient. You should know how to round for an IV pump. Minimum Dose: ml/hr You come back after 10 minutes to see the patient has not responded with the desired outcome. What would be the new adjusted dose and rate for this patient? Use your understanding of the proportional relationship between the dose and rate to address this problem, New adjusted dose: mog/min New adjusted rate: mL/hr Given what you know about the proporitonal relationship between the dose and rate, calculate the maximum mL/hr rate that would given to this patient. Maximum Dose: ml/hr The patient is stabilized at 11.2 ml/hr. What dose are they receiving? mog/min. Round to the nearest tenth, as needed.