Estimation of Children’s Weight in Medical Emergencies

摘要: In medical emergencies drug dosage, equipment sizing and electrical countershock dose are based on a child’s weight. Severity of illness urgency treatment usually preclude formal measurement weight scales. Incorrect estimation could result in toxicity or sub-therapeutic treatment, both which may carry serious adverse outcomes. Methods for estimating rely age–length–weight relationships include age-based formulae length-based methods. An alternative is visual by parent clinician. Available evidence suggests that parental the most accurate [where prepared to give an estimate], followed methods such as Broselow Tape with being least accurate. Among formulae, Best Guess appear perform best. Challenges age- significant inter-ethnic variation age–height–weight relationship, trend towards increasing across world how factor body habitus into way easily applied.