What does BSA stand for?

Body Surface Area

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Benedict in 1919 who figured out that approximate value could be derived from body surface area (hence why they ask for height and weight), age, and sex.

Letting INSANITY Determine Your Daily Caloric Needs

Children require special care because the doses required are calculated with regards their body weight and their body surface area.

Children most vulnerable to vector- borne disease

The body surface area was determined according to DuBois and DuBois formula (Dubois and Dubois, 1989): (BSA) ([m.

Exercise-induced arterial adaptations in elite judo athletes

Infection remains a common cause of death in burn patients and is responsible for 75% of all deaths in patients with burns exceeding 40% total body surface area (TBSA).

Infection is one of the commonest causes of death in burn patients, ...

Unlike regular vincristine, Marqibo is dosed based on patient body surface area without the need to limit the dose to avoid neurotoxicities.

HANA BIOSCIENCES GETS U.S.ORPHAN DRUG DESIGNATION FOR MARQIBO

DISCUSSION Burns on >10% of the total body surface area are responsible for systemic perturbations, which, in cases of very severe fluid volume abnormalities and electrolyte changes, can eventually lead to burn shock, and can represent a vital risk.

Radiological case of the month: Maria Jose Bello, MD, Esther ...

There were no statistical differences in gender, age, body surface area, ejection fraction, left ventricular dimensions and heart rate between the controls and hypertensive subjects (p>0.

Relationship between the elastic properties of aorta and QT ...

As CellCept has been shown to have teratogenic effects in animals at subclinical doses on a body surface area basis, it may cause fetal harm when administered to a pregnant woman.

ASPERVA REPORTS ON PHASE III TRIAL FOR MYASTHENIA GRAVIS