The patient receives armour thyroid 60 mg bid for hashmito’s thyroiditis. On the med cart you find armour thyroid 30mg/tab. You are asked to figure out the patients total daily dose. What is c? Show all work
To calculate the patient's total daily dose of Armour Thyroid, we need to know the number of tablets the patient takes in a day.
Given:
Armour Thyroid: 30 mg/tab
Dose frequency: BID (twice a day)
To find out the total daily dose, we will calculate the dose per tablet and then multiply it by the number of tablets taken in a day.
Dose per tablet: 30 mg
Number of tablets per dose: 1
Total dose per dose (tablet dose * number of tablets): 30 mg * 1 tablet = 30 mg
Since the dose frequency is BID (twice a day), we multiply the total dose per dose by 2 to get the total daily dose:
Total daily dose = Total dose per dose * Dose frequency
Total daily dose = 30 mg * 2 = 60 mg
Therefore, the patient's total daily dose of Armour Thyroid is 60 mg.
To calculate the patient's total daily dose of Armour Thyroid, we need to determine the number of tablets the patient should take in a day.
The patient is prescribed Armour Thyroid 60 mg twice a day (bid). Each Armour Thyroid tablet available is 30 mg.
To calculate the number of tablets needed to achieve the prescribed dose, we can use the following equation:
Number of tablets = Total dose prescribed (mg) / Dose per tablet (mg)
In this case, the total dose prescribed is 60 mg and the dose per tablet is 30 mg:
Number of tablets = 60 mg / 30 mg
Number of tablets = 2 tablets
Therefore, the patient should take 2 tablets of Armour Thyroid 30 mg per day to achieve a total daily dose of 60 mg.