[Answered]: Your patient is to receive an intramuscular…

Your patient is to receive an intramuscular antibiotic, Codexin. The physician ordered 1.5 grams every 8 hours. The patient weighs 210 pounds. The medication is provided in a 10 gram multidose vial that requires reconstitution. Reconstitution directions indicate, “Add 4.5 ml Normal Saline yielding approximately 5 ml after reconstitution. The medication insert indicates, “The safe range of the medication is 35 mg/kg/day to 60 mg/kg/day in equal doses every 8 hours.” If the dose is safe, what volume (ml) will you administer? Round to the nearest hundredths place. If the dose is not safe, enter 0.