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rule of nines: a standalone construct

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Burn surgery

a quick estimate of burned body surface area that assigns roughly nine percent or multiples of it to each major body region.

In burn surgery, rule of nines refers to a quick estimate of burned body surface area that assigns roughly nine percent or multiples of it to each major body region. This meaning comes from Wallace (1951) in The Lancet.[1]

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body2 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs burn1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct quick2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs

References

Wallace, A. B. (1951). The Exposure Treatment of Burns. The Lancet, 257(6653), 501-504. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(51)91975-7

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