A patient with Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia will be receiving pentamidine (Pentam 300) as an intravenous piggyback (IVPB) dose. The medication has been added to a 100-mL bag of D₅W for the infusion, and it needs to infuse over 120 minutes. The nurse will set the infusion pump to infuse at what rate for this IVPB medication?

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The Answer is 50 mL/hr
First, convert 120 minutes to hours because the infusion pump will infuse at a mL/hr rate.
120 minutes × (1 hour/60 minutes) = 2 hours
100 mL ÷ 2 hours = 50 mL/hr

A Patient with Pneumocystis Jirovecii Pneumonia Will Be Receiving Pentamidine