Question

a prescription is written for 300 mg of an antibotic to be given by mouth every 8 hours for 10 days. The amtibiotic comes in an oral suspension in a concentration of 100mh/5ml, and is available in a 150 ml bottle. one bottle of antibiotic costs 600.00. The technician did the calculation to determine the number of bottles to reconstitute. they determind they needed 6 bottles and continued with resconsitutting the 6 bottles and preparing the labels. on final check the pharmacist was very upset because the technician has cost the pharmacy money because of poor caculating. How many bottles should

Answer 1

How many bottles should have been reconstituted and how much money was lost by the pharmacy?

Answer 2

help please :(((

Answer 3

whats mh/mL?

Answer 4

im guessing it's mg/mL..

you need every 8 hours for 10 days.. 24hrsx10 days = 240 hrs

240hrs/8hrs=30 doses

100mg/mL and you need 300mg.. so 15mL is what you need per dose.

so 30 doses x 15 mL = 450mL in total

150mL per bottle. so 450/150= 3 bottles

3 bottles x $600/bottle= $1800

you need 3 bottles and your total cost is $1800.

ps. this is more math related than "health science" related