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The shortest safest time would have to round up to 30 minutes
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Agreed
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Why was mine marked wrong when i answered 29.2
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Serotonin Fracture
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you need to round up to nearest min as per the question 
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why do we need to round up??? it just says round to the nearest min and the nearest min is 29mins
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you need to round up with time, as the minimum you need is 29.2 minutes, if you did 29.2 minutes that wouldn't be enough time for the infusion, therefore with time always round up. It's the same principle with vials that can only be used once. 
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so confused
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basically you have 0.2 minutes left over, so you need to round up to the next minute - it was a weird q for sure
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Dose = 20 x 73 = 1460 mg
Time = 1460 mg / 50 mg/min = 29.2 minutes

This is then rounded **up** to 30 minutes, as 29 minutes would not be able to deliver the total dosage required.
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A 19 year-old woman is brought into resus by ambulance already in status epilepticus. It is decided she should be commenced on an infusion of Phenytoin (20 mg/kg). She weighs 73 kg.


Phenytoin is infused at a maximum rate of 50 mg/min.

What is the shortest time period (to the nearest whole minute) over which the phenytoin infusion can be infused?