The importance of metabolic rate and the folly of body surface area calculations

Anaesthesia

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 50-55

  Gibson, S ^a,b   Numa, A ^b,c  

^a PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c SYDNEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Body surface area; Calorimetry; Metabolic rate

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY SURFACE; BODY WEIGHT; CALCULATION; CALORIMETRY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FLUID THERAPY; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HAIR FOLLICLE; HEART OUTPUT; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; METABOLIC RATE; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT PARAMETERS; REVIEW; SKIN; STANDARDIZATION;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; BODY SURFACE AREA; BODY WEIGHT; CALORIMETRY, INDIRECT; HUMANS; SKIN; THERMOGENESIS;

EID: 0037237453     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2044.2003.02788_1.x     Document Type: Review

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