The pass rate was 30% "main points for a pass included the equations for determining the loading and maintenance doses." To address this injustice, this chapter will present those equations up front before degenerating into characteristic gibberish. It therefore seemed all the more unfair when Question 10 from the first paper of 2009 asked the candidates to "describe the calculations involved in determining the loading dose and maintenance dose for an intravenous infusion". However, neither the new 2017 syllabus nor the old 2014 syllabus included anything specific about dose calculations in their list of learning objectives or expected abilities. Loading doses and maintenance doses have some practical relevance to these concepts, and the design of a dosing regimen requires some understanding of them. This chapter is vaguely relevant to parts from Section B(v) of the 2017 CICM Primary Syllabus, which expects the exam candidate to " explain the concepts of intravenous bolus and infusion kinetics".