RE: OT - yo! Nurses! help on this one

Kitty: 1cc = 1 ml: they are completely interchangeable in terms of
pharmaceutical use. For a 21 day dosing regimen, that would equate to
37.8 ml...obviously you got shorted and I would be taking that up with
the dispensing agent in case you've paid for the full course. As to why
no consistency...my guess would be preference on the part of the
prescriber/dispenser since they are understood to be the same
measurement, basically. When you stop to think about the capacity of a
teaspoon as being filled with a certain volume of liquid, then this
makes sense in a relative kind of way.


Melody, IA (Z 5/4)

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 --- On Fri 03/28, Kitty < kmrsy@earthlink.net > wrote:
From: Kitty [mailto: kmrsy@earthlink.net]
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 12:38:05 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [CHAT] OT - yo! Nurses! help on this one

Can someone help me with this?<br>The measurements, cc and ml, are
apples and oranges.<br>ml measures capacity<br>cc measures volume<br>Yet
they appear to be interchangeable. Are they equivalent?<br><br>The
prescription says:<br>bottle contains 22.5 ml<br>Give 1.8 cc every day
for 21 days.<br><br>Except, if they are interchangeable, that's only
12.5 doses.<br>And I did only get 12 doses from the bottle.<br>Can
someone explain? And can you also explain why they can't be consistent -
ml or cc?<br><br>Kitty<br><br><br>If you have weeds, you don't have
enough
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