[Solved]: You are the veterinarian on duty overnight in an…

You are the veterinarian on duty overnight in an emergency hospital, your technician alerts you that a patient, Athena a 5-year-old German Shepard, who is 12 hours post-op from a gastropexy (What is this surgery?) to treat a gastric dilation and volvulus (GDV), has become weak and unwilling to walk. You perform an ECG and find Athena is experiencing ventricular tachycardia (a common complication of GDV.) Athena feels much better after an IV lidocaine bolus, but her v-tach quickly returns. You want to start her on a continuous rate infusion (CRI) of lidocaine at 40 mg/kg/min using a fluid infusion pump. Athena weighs 30 kg, lidocaine is supplied as a 2% (w/v) aqueous solution, you want Athena to get 30 mL/hr of fluid from the CRI. How many milliliters of lidocaine solution do you add to a 500 mL bag of saline solution? Show all work.