mg/ml
Occasionally in patient care settings, product concentrations such as percent strength, ratio strength or grams per liter need to be rapidly converted to milligrams per milliliter (mg/ml). These conversions can be made quickly using the following simple techniques:
Converting percentage strength to mg/ml: A quick way to do this is to remember 1 % is equivalent to 1g/100 ml or 1000 mg/100ml or 10 mg/ml..
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Solved Problem: Convert 4 % (w/v) to mg/ml. |
Converting ratio strength to mg/ml: A quick way to do this is to remember 1:1000 is equivalent to 1g/1000 ml or 1000 mg/1000ml or 1 mg/ml.
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Solved Problem: Convert 1:4000 to mg/ml. |
Converting product strength expressed as grams per liter (g/L) to mg/ml: to do this, convert the numerator to milligrams and divide by the number of milliliters in the denominator.
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Solved Problem: Convert 1 g per 250 ml to mg/ml. |