Quick Method for Estimating Body Surface Area

摘要: Body surface area is increasingly used as a dosage criterion, not only for administration of water and electrolytes, 1,2 but also drug therapy. 3 Its chief merit that requirements well therapeutic doses many pharmaceutical agents, are roughly proportional to body area, except neonates premature infants. The convenience thus offered the clinician obvious. In addition, appears offer increased accuracy safety, despite theoretical objections 4 its scientific validity gauge dosage. physician cannot, course, measure directly. For this reason, nomograms (requiring measurement height weight) weight-to-surface tables weight only) have been employed. But who forgets his nomogram or table, has no way obtain patient's weight, cannot estimate area. A less cumbersome method