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17.Order: You are to infuse fluids at a rate of 4mg/kg/BSA for your burn patient.

Your burn patient has a BSA of 45% and a weight of 205#.

Question: How much fluid will your patient receive in the next 24 hours?

Any help would be appreciated!! We have never been taught BSA so Im stuck!

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17. Order: You are to infuse fluids at a rate of 4mg/kg/BSA for your burn patient.

Your burn patient has a BSA of 45% and a weight of 205#.

Question: How much fluid will your patient receive in the next 24 hours?

Any help would be appreciated!! We have never been taught BSA so Im stuck!

what is the patient height?

BSA is Body Surface Area

here is the formula

BSA = weight in (lb) X Height (in)

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3131

if your weight is in kg change the denominator to 3600

Order: You are to infuse fluids at a rate of 4mg/kg/BSA for your burn patient.

Your burn patient has a BSA of 45% and a weight of 205#.

Question: How much fluid will your patient receive in the next 24 hours?

there must to be a height, so you can calculate the mg/kg/bsa (consider the 45% after calculating BSA obvioulsy)

then after that you must fing how many mg per ml, so you can calculate the amount of fluids needed in the next 24 hours!!!

- i hope i could help

can you check if there is any height somewere there?

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17. Order: You are to infuse fluids at a rate of 4mg/kg/BSA for your burn patient.

Your burn patient has a BSA of 45% and a weight of 205#.

Question: How much fluid will your patient receive in the next 24 hours?

Any help would be appreciated!! We have never been taught BSA so Im stuck!

This problem refers to something called the Parkland Formula for burns. You don't need the actual BSA but instead the percentage of the body burned, which you were given.

It's then a straightforward calculation: 205lbs/2.2 = 93.2 Kg.

4 mL * 93 (Kg) * 45 (percent) = 16740 mL over 24 hours.

Typically you then give 1/2 the total in the first 8 hours followed by 1/4 the total in each of the next 8 hours.

edited to add: if you copied the problem exactly as they gave it to you, your instructors have several confusing typos: mg instead of mL and the use of the term BSA.

edited again to add: Here's the raw formula: 4 mL * weight in kilograms * percent of body burned = how much LR to infuse in 24 hours.

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This problem refers to something called the Parkland Formula for burns. You don't need the actual BSA but instead the percentage of the body burned, which you were given.

It's then a straightforward calculation: 205lbs/2.2 = 93.2 Kg.

4 mL * 93 (Kg) * 45 (percent) = 16740 mL over 24 hours.

Typically you then give 1/2 the total in the first 8 hours followed by 1/4 the total in each of the next 8 hours.

edited to add: if you copied the problem exactly as they gave it to you, your instructors have several confusing typos: mg instead of mL and the use of the term BSA.

edited again to add: Here's the raw formula: 4 mL * weight in kilograms * percent of body burned = how much LR to infuse in 24 hours.

Yah I did that but it does not match the answer on the key!

Im totally lost!

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Yah I did that but it does not match the answer on the key!

Im totally lost!

I lied I looked at the wrong answer key thank you so much hypo you rock!

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