Nicole walks through two heparin drip problems using unit cancellation. Convert 27 mL/hr from a 25,000-unit bag to 1,350 units/hr. Then convert a prescribed 1,500 units/hr from a 50,000-unit bag to 15 mL/hr for the pump.
In this video, we are going to walk through how to do heparin drip calculations for nursing school. We will walk you through a simple step by step process to get heparin dosage calculations right every single time on your nursing school exams. And of course we have a full dosage calculation cheat sheet that walks you through this simple six step process for getting dose calc questions right every single time. So don't worry, friend, you do not need to figure everything out alone anymore for nursing school. We are here to help walk you through it. So that link to that cheat sheet is down below. And if you want to deep dive into this six step process, be sure to check this video out along with all the other videos that we have in this dose calc series here on YouTube. Now, our lead nurse on our team, Nicole, is going to walk you through these heparin drip practice problems. So hit that subscribe button and click the notification bell and let's dive in.
All right, let's talk about heparin and let's go through some heparin calculations so you can feel super confident when these pop up on your dose calc exams. So we're going to run through our six steps that we do for every dose calc problem and then we will solve these problems. Let's start with number one. Your patient Sarah has a DVT in her left leg and has a heparin drip that's running at 27 milliliters per hour. The bag of heparin looks halfway gone and comes in 500ml bags with 25,000 units. How many units per hour is your patient receiving? So we need to figure out step number one, what we need. So how many units per hour tells us right there. So units per hour is what we're going to end up with and what we're going to need. Now what we need to find out is our order. Our order is 500 ML bag with 25,000 units. It's running at 27 ML per hour. At 27 mils per hour. So we are going to set up our conversions. We need to get from here 27 mils per hour with 500ml bag with 25 units to units per hour. So what we are going to do is we're going to start with our 27ml over one hour. Now we need to get from here. We know we have 500ml bag with 25,000 units. So we're going to put our 500ml bag down here. So we can cross these off. And this is 25,000 units. Now we are going to multiply across the top and then multiply across the bottom, divide the two and we will get our units per hour because we right here have units per hour. So 27 times 25,000 is going to be 6, 7, 5, 1, 2, 3 divided by 500. 500 equals 1350 units per hour. So that is going to be our answer. So again we had our our units cross off and we were left with just units per hour. And there is our answer. Let's move on to number two. The pharmacy sends up the heparin bag for your patient Rachel. She has a right leg thrombosis and is complaining of 7 out of 10 pain. The heparin bag from the pharmacy reads 50,000 units per 500 mls. Your Mars says that Rachel should be getting 1500 units per hour. You find your RN friend Matt to do a double check with you at the bedside. What should your IV pump be set to? So let's start with step number one. What do we need our IV pump to be run at? So IV pumps always run at milliliters per hour. So we know that's the unit that we're going to end up with. Now let's figure out our order. So we have 50,000 units per 500ml and she should be getting 1500 units per hour. So we know we need to get from 1500 units unds per 1 hour and we need to get to milliliters per hour. We have 50,000 units per 500 MLS. So if we do 50,000 units per 500 MLS, the units are going to cross off and we're left with just milliliters per hour. So we multiply across the top. 1500 times 500 is going to be 750123 divided by 50,000 equals 15 milliliters per hour. And that is what we're going to set our IV pump at. So again, we crossed off our units here. Units. Units. We were left with milliliters per hour multiplied across the top, multiplied across the bottom and we were left with 15 milliliters per hour.
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