In a patient whose blood glucose fell to 70 mg/dL and was treated with D5W/normal saline at 200 mL/hr for 2 hours, now glucose is 105 mg/dL and the provider wants to switch to D10W at 75 mL/hr, what is the appropriate infusion rate and monitoring strategy?

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