Questions: 6. If an IV fluid is adjusted to deliver 15 mg of medication to a patient per hour, how many mg of medication are delivered per minute?

Solution Steps

To find out how many milligrams of medication are delivered per minute, we need to convert the rate from milligrams per hour to milligrams per minute. Since there are 60 minutes in an hour, we can divide the hourly rate by 60 to get the rate per minute.

The IV fluid is adjusted to deliver \( 15 \, \text{mg} \) of medication per hour. To find the rate of medication delivery per minute, we need to convert this hourly rate to a per-minute rate.

Since there are \( 60 \) minutes in an hour, we can express the rate per minute as follows: \[ \text{Rate per minute} = \frac{15 \, \text{mg}}{60 \, \text{minutes}} = 0.25 \, \text{mg/minute} \]

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