03-25-2015, 03:23 PM
9. A 24-year-old man with a history of intravenous drug use is brought lo the emergency department by his roommate 30 minutes after he could not be aroused. The friend reports that the
patient injected himself with a drug approximately 6 hours ago. Laboratory studies show a serum drug concentration of 0.30 mg/L. Assuming the drug exhibits first-order one-compartment
kinetics, has a half-life of 2 hours, and a volume of distribution of 200 L in this patient, which of the following is the most likely approximate quantity of the drug (in mg) injected?
0 A) 300
0 8) 480
0 C) 600
patient injected himself with a drug approximately 6 hours ago. Laboratory studies show a serum drug concentration of 0.30 mg/L. Assuming the drug exhibits first-order one-compartment
kinetics, has a half-life of 2 hours, and a volume of distribution of 200 L in this patient, which of the following is the most likely approximate quantity of the drug (in mg) injected?
0 A) 300
0 8) 480
0 C) 600