You need to add 2grams potassium chloride to 1L of sodium chloride 0.9 % infusion. You have 10ml ampoles of 20% potassium chloride. What volume of potassium do you need to draw up.

Question

Drug calculation.

Answer 1

A 10ml ampule contains 2g of of 20% KCl, so you would only need 1 ampule to add 2g to the NaCl.