You are asked to work with a team of healthcare professionals to review the emergency medications used in a code blue. One medication, atropine, is often administered as a single intravenous bolus dose. While reviewing the pharmacokinetics of atropine, you identify that atropine has an elimination half-life of 2.1 hours and a volume of distribution of 180 L. Your hospital protocols also suggest atropine is administered as a 0.5 mg intravenous injection and that the duration of resuscitation efforts last for 40 minutes on average. What is the expected concentration (in units of μg/L) of atropine in the patient’s plasma 40 minutes after the single 0.5 mg intravenous dose?
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