Parenteral Drugs in Solution

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Chapter 8

• Parenteral Drugs in Solution

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Parenteral

• Those drugs given by injection
• IM (intramuscular)
• Sub-c or sub-q (subcutaneous)
• ID (intradermal)
• Manufactured in these forms
• Ampules
• Vials
• Prefilled syringes
• Single-dose cartridge injector units

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Syringes

• Calibrated in mLs and/or ccs
• Variety of sizes and scales for measurements
• Some syringes have marks every 0.01cc, others
  have marks only every 0.2 cc.
• Be sure you know what you are reading on the
  measurement scale and which scale you are reading

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The proportion formula (again!)

• Write what you know first as a fraction form
  ratio.
• Follow that ratio with an equal sign
• Write the unknown (be sure you have written this
  unknown in the same order as the known)
• Make conversions if necessary
• Solve for X