Body surface area (BSA) plays a key role in several medical fields, including cancer chemotherapy, transplantology, burn treatment and toxicology. BSA is often a major factor in the determination of the course of treatment and drug dosage. A series of formulae to simplify the process have been developed. Because easy-to-identify, yet general, body coefficient results of those formulae vary cons...

27. Holt Geometry. All rights reserved. Name. Date. Class. LESSON. 10-4. Practice A. Surface Area of 3. surface area of a right prism with lateral area L and base area B. S. L. 2B. 4. surface . Give your answers in terms of . 9. 2 in. 2 in. 10. a . understanding thermal relations between swine and their SA=970 W "633, where SA=swine body sur. Hence, part of the difference between Brody's. find ...

Echocardiographic data from 92 younger normal subjects (1 month to 23 years of age) and 136 older normal subjects (20-97 years of age) were pooled and analyzed to obtain prediction equations for normal echocardiographic values. Using a bivariate regression model with the assumption that variability is constant as a percentage of the expected value, we developed regression equation and graphs th...

O'Malley, K., Coleman, E. N., Doig, W. B., and Stevenson, I. H. (1973). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 48, 55. Plasma digoxin levels in infants. The average dosage rate of digoxin given in a group of infants, when related to body surface area, was twice as high (and when related to body weight, five times as high) as that employed for the maintenance therapy of adult controls. The resulting ...

Demetrius A Miminas is a Postgraduate MSc Student at Cardiff University and a Trust-grade Plastic Surgeon at Russells Hall Hospital, Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust, Dudley, West Midlands Measurement of wound size and, more specifi cally, surface area is an important aspect of assessing any wound. With regards to burn wounds this measurement, expressed as percentage of the total body surfac...

Grochow et al. (1) questioned the use of body surface area in dose normalization more than a decade ago in this Journal. In this issue, Baker et al. (2) retrospectively assessed the pharmacokinetics of 33 investigational agents tested in phase I trials during the past decade as a function of body surface area in 1650 adult cancer patients. Based on their findings, they recommend that the practi...

PURPOSE To evaluate the best method for dosing busulfan in children, we retrospectively analyzed two different data sets from three different dosing regimens by means of population pharmacokinetics using NONMEM. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN The development data set consisted of plasma samples from 94 children, in the age range of 0.4 to 18.8 years, receiving either oral or intravenous busulfan. The ex...