NBME 23 Answers : Block 2 : #15 = A child with septicemia has an antibiotic clearance ...

NBME 23 Answers

nbme23/Block 2/Question#15

A child with septicemia has an antibiotic clearance ...

28.8

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submitted by wired-in(46),

Maintenance dose formula is (CssCltau)/F where Css is steady-state target plasma conc. of drug, Cl is clearance, tau is dosage interval & F is bioavailability.

Neither dosage interval nor bioavailability is given, so ignoring those & plugging in the numbers (careful to convert units to mg/kg/day): (12 ug/mL * 1 mg/1000 ug) * (0.09 L/hr/kg * 1000 mL/1 L * 24 hr/1 day) = 25.92 mg/kg/day

...which isn't any of the answer choices listed. They must have rounded 0.09 L/hr/kg to 0.1 L/hr/kg, and doing so gives exactly 28.8 mg/kg/day (choice C)

lispectedwumbologist That's so infuriating I stared at this question for 20 minutes thinking I did something wrong +35

hyoid ^^^^^ +5

seagull lol..my math never worked either. I also just chose the closest number. also, screw this question author for doing that. +5

praderwilli Big mad +4

ht3 this is why you never waste 7 minutes on a question.... because of shit like this +7

yotsubato Why the FUCK did they not just give us a clearance of 0.1 if they're going to fuckin round it anyways... +10

bigjimbo JOKES +

cr in ur maths, why did u put 24h/1day and not 1day/24h? if the given Cl was 0.09L/hr/kg. I know it just is a math question, but i´d appreciate if someone could explain it. +

d_holles LMAO games NBME plays +1

hyperfukus magic math!!!!! how TF r we supposed to know when they round and when they don't like wtf im so pissed someone please tell me step isn't like this...with such precise decimal answers and a calculator fxn you would assume they wanted an actual answer! +1

jean_young2019 OMG, I've got the 25.92 mg/kg/day, which isn't any of the answer choices listed. So I chose the D 51.8, because 51.8 is double of 25.9......I thought I must have make a mistake during the calculation ...... +2

atbangura They purposely did that so if you made a mistake with your conversion like I did, you might end up with 2.5 which was one of the answer choices. SMH +1

titanesxvi I did well, but I thought that my mistake was something to do with the conversion and end up choosing 2.5 because it is similar to 25.92 +1

makinallkindzofgainz The fact that we pay these people 60 dollars a pop for poorly formatted and written exams boggles my mind, and yet here I am, about to buy Form 24 +3

qball Me after plugging in the right numbers and not rounding down : https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/028/539/DyqSKoaX4AATc2G.jpg +1

frustratedllama Not only do you feel like you're doing sth wrong but then that feeling stays for other questions. sucks so baad +

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submitted by hungrybox(433),

Fucking NBME test writers lmao

Me: "Wait... isn't the answer 25.9? How come I don't see it here."

NBME: "Oh yeah, we rounded it."

Me: "To 30? I don't see that here, either..."

NBME: "No, to 28.8"

tyrionwill When I got 25.9 and found nothing exactly matched, I guessed that the maintenance dose might be a bit more due to the bioavailability. So this antibiotic probably was not an I.V. formula, but an oral one, with a roughly 90% BA. +1

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submitted by hyperfukus(43),

so should we just skip these? cuz there's prob 10 more i couldve gotten write wasting my life on this one

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submitted by docred123(3),

Hey can someone please explain this! I am not sure how to do the math, I keep getting tripped up.

mousie Equation is Maintenance dose = (concentration at steady state) * (Clearance) if you convert all the units to what it wanted them in (mg/kg/day) you'll get 25.92 like weird-in said above I didn't think to round 0.09 to 0.1 of course so I guessed 2.5 assuming I must have done a conversion wrong and was off by a tenth .... BOO bad Q +4

hyperfukus OMG ME TOO!!!!! +

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submitted by diabetes(10),

12Mg/ml=12mg/L 120.09=1.08 mg/hr/kg 1.0824=25.92 mg/day/kg the nearest nanswer is 28.8

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submitted by paperbackwriter(12),

can we all agree this was far too much math and unit conversion, WHY THE UNIT CONVERSIONS!?! WE ALL CLEARLY PASSED CHEM 101