How to calculate body burn percentage?

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I'm learning about burns in my class,anyone has idea?

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Transplant, Education.

If you're learning about burns, you should have been taught the Rule of 9's....look that up, that should help.

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Specializes in Pyschiatry/Behavioral (Inpatient).

Google "Rule of Nines"

That's the general guideline to base your lacted ringers fluid resus for the patient. There is one for adults and peds.

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Specializes in Peds Rehab, Informatics.

Google the Parkland-Baxter formula,

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Specializes in Advanced Practice, surgery.

lovehospital take a look in the burns nursing section of this site.

The rule of 9's is a rapid assessment tool, I used to use the Lund and Browder chart. It is supposed to be more accurate for estimating burns surface area when I worked in burns

Here are some links that may help as well

http://www.bestbets.org/bets/bet.php?id=957

http://www.nda.ox.ac.uk/wfsa/html/u10/u1010_01.htm

http://www.tg.org.au/etg_demo/etg-lund-and-browder.pdf

https://allnurses.com/burn-nursing/parkland-vs-brooke-349017.html

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Specializes in school nursing, ortho, trauma.

There is also the palmar method where you take the size of the PATIENT"S hand and use that to estimate. The palm accounts for 1% os in a burn on a leg is the size of 10 of the patient's palms, you can estimate a burn to 10% of the body.

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