Percentage of body surface area burned (% TBSA)

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A bombing incident brought an influx of patients in the nearby hospitals. The following patients had been admitted.

Determine the following for each burned patient and show tour complete solution:

  1. Percentage of body surface area burned (% TBSA)
  2. Total fluid volume replacement
  3. Fluid for the 1st 8 hours and the fluid volume for the next 16 hours

A 35-year-old male patient, Dazai, has full thickness burns to the anterior and posterior head and neck, front of left leg, and perineum. He was brought into the hospital at 12nn where you are on ER duty for the 6am-2pm shift.

  1. % TBSA=______
  2. Total fluid volume replacement needed. IVF resuscitation started at 12nn.=_____
  3. IVF volume for the 1st 8 hours = _________
  4. IVF volume for over the next 16hours = _________
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