Ep 94 Pre-Reg Practice Question 4 Biologic Pharmacology Calculations

While the UK and United States have different methods for assessing their health professionals often the calculations and math(s) strategies are the same. I invite you to enjoy this 12-part series on Part 4 of preparing for the Pre-Reg exam but will also help those in the states that are looking to improve their skills in nursing, pharmacy technician, and pharmacist skills. Here's the Memorizing Pharmacology book link:  https://www.audible.com/pd/Memorizing-Pharmacology-Audiobook/B09JVBHRXK?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-281667&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_281667_rh_us Want more options? Find the book here: https://geni.us/iA22iZ  and subscribe to my YouTube Channel TonyPharmD here: https://www.youtube.com/c/tonypharmd Here is a Link to my Pharmacy Residency Courses:  residency.teachable.com   Auto Generated Transcript: Welcome to the Memorizing Pharmacology podcast. I'm Tony Guerra, pharmacist and author of the Memorizing Pharmacology book series, bringing you mnemonics, cases, and advice for succeeding in Pharmacology. Sign up for the email list at memorizingfarm.com to get your free suffixes cheat sheet or find our mobile-friendly self-paced online pharmacology review course at residency.teachable.com/P/mobile. Let's get started with the show. As I mentioned earlier, some of these are just much easier than the other ones which are quite hard. So, I'll just read it. Number four: Mr. A, who weighs 60 kilograms, attends a pre-admission clinic at your hospital two weeks prior to having orthopedic surgery. He's found to have moderate anemia and his doctor prescribes a course of subcutaneous Eprex (Epoetin Alpha). The Epoetin Alpha is given at 300 units per kg daily for 15 days. How many units of Epoetin Alpha will Mr. A be given for the 15-day course? Again, with weights, you generally don't make any change; you don't have a conversion. These usually stay singular but we do have a couple of conversion factors: 300 units per kilogram per day and then 15 days for the course. So we want to see what our answer is supposed to be. Well, our answer is going to be the number of units per course. We have units per kilogram per day over here and then we have 15 days per course. So we get rid of the day here and we have kilograms; get rid of the kilograms so we have the number of units per course. We check our work, cross off the units and we see that we have 60 kilograms times 15 days per course times 300 units per kilogram per day equals 270,000 units per course. Thanks for listening to the Memorizing Pharmacology podcast. You can find episodes, cheat sheets, and more at memorizingfarm.com. Again, you can sign up for the email list at memorizingfarm.com to get your free suffixes cheat sheet or find our mobile-friendly self-paced online pharmacology review course at residency.teachable.com/P/mobile. Thanks again for listening. Like to learn more? Find my book here: https://geni.us/iA22iZ or here: https://www.audible.com/pd/B01FSR7HLE/?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-059486&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_059486_rh_us and subscribe to YouTube Channel TonyPharmD here: https://www.youtube.com/c/tonypharmd Here is a Link to my Pharmacy Residency Courses:  residency.teachable.com