The patient should be given 50 ml of the 100 mg that the doctor ordered(prescribed) because it is available as 1,000 mcg/0.5 ml in
Drug preparations.
Drug preparations are pharmaceutical products that come in certain forms and are used as either internal or external medications. They comprise one or more active ingredients in a carrier.
The three types of pharmacological dosage forms—liquid (true solutions, suspensions, and emulsions), semisolid (creams, lotions, ointments, gels, and suppositories), and solid—can be categorised according to the substance form.
when a doctor orders syrup with 100 mg. It contains 1,000 mcg/0.5 cc of syrup.
So how do you compute it?
1 mcg = 0.001 mg
1000 mcg Equals 1 mg
(100mg/1mg) times 0.5ml equals 50ml.
Therefore, 50 cc of the medicinal mixture must be administered to patients.
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