Journal article
Surface area in children: a simple formula
Indian pediatrics, Vol.46(12), pp.1085-1087
12/2009
PMID: 19430073
Abstract
We retrospectively compared body surface area (BSA) using the Mosteller formula square root(H x (w/360)) and a simple weight-based BSA formula ([4Wkg+7]/ [90+Wkg]). The participants were 363 children who underwent cardiac surgery from 1991 to 2000. Their age ranged from 5 days to 18 years, weight ranged from 1.2 kg to 98 kg and height ranged from 38 cm to 178 cm. There was excellent correlation (r(2)=0.991) between Mosteller formula and the new formula (P < 0.001). We propose that the weight-based formula is easy to use and accurate. It can safely replace Mosteller formula and dispense the need for time-consuming calculations.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Surface area in children: a simple formula
- Creators
- Muhammad Furqan - Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi 74800, PakistanAnwarul Haque
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Indian pediatrics, Vol.46(12), pp.1085-1087
- PMID
- 19430073
- NLM abbreviation
- Indian Pediatr
- ISSN
- 0019-6061
- eISSN
- 0974-7559
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/2009
- Academic Unit
- Hematology, Oncology, and Blood & Marrow Transplantation; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984094500302771
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