IV Calculation Flow Rate Practice Activity

What is the drop rate?

The volume of IV fluid infused over one minute

800 ml of blood is to be given to a patient over 5 hours. What is the flow rate if the drop factor is 15?

40 gtt/min

A patient needs to be given 2 litres of Saline over 15 hours. Your drop factor is 15 ggts/ml. What is the rate in ml/hour?

133 ml/hr

The doctor orders 1 litre of normal saline for 8 hours. The drop factor is 20 gtts/ml. What is the flow rate?

42 gtt/min

What is the drop factor?

The number of drops / ml

What unit of measurement is drop factor in?

gtt/ml

2 litres = how many millilitres?

2000 ml

The doctor has ordered 500 ml of solution over 24 hours. The drop factor is 60 gtt/ml. What is the flow rate?

21 gtt/min

100ml is to be given for 50 minutes with a drop factor of 20. How much fluid is being given per minute?

2 ml/min

A client is to receive 1000ml of IV solution every eight hours using an ifusion set that has a drop factor of 10ggt/ml. Calculate the rate of flow in gtts/min

21 gtt/ min

1 litre = how many millilitres?

1000 ml

If a physician orders 1000 ml of Ringer's Lactate to infuse over 12 hours, how many ml would infuse per hour?

83 ml/hr

What is the flow rate?

The speed at which IV fluid infuses into the patient expressed in gtt/min