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The knowing of the body segments masses may be helpful to the health professional to evaluate the patient condition, to calculate the drug doses (particularly those depending of the patient weight), to establish a physical therapy, etc. In this work, the hight and mass of twenty young individuals are used to compute, based on statistical formules, the body mass index (BMI), the blood volume (BV), the basal metabolic rate (BMR) and the body surface (BS). This data is used, to estimate the four clinical parameters of twenty fictitious patients who were amputated from one lower limb.
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Why is it important?
The knowing of the body segments masses may be helpful to the health professional to evaluate the patient condition, to calculate the drug doses (particularly those depending of the patient weight), to establish a physical therapy, etc. In this work, the hight and mass of twenty young individuals are used to compute, based on statistical formules, the body mass index (BMI), the blood volume (BV), the basal metabolic rate (BMR) and the body surface (BS). This data is used, to estimate the four clinical parameters of twenty fictitious patients who were amputated from one lower limb.
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This page is a summary of: On the importance of the theoretical computation of the human body segments’ masses, Cogent Medicine, October 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/2331205x.2018.1540963.
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