Talk:Parkland formula
Latest comment: 8 years ago by Jclemens in topic Off by 100 error
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Off by 100 error
editSo, in every RS that I've seen for the Parkland Formula, it multiplies by the percentage TBSA involved in 2nd and 3rd degree burns. Only, if you look at any calculator or example, they're actually multiplying the TBSA percentage by 100, to give, instead of a fraction between 0 and 1, an integer between 0 and 100. Pretty much every RS I've seen, including the ABLS textbook as of a few years back, stated the math wrong. Our formula in the article is now correct... but at odds with every RS cited in the article. I'm not proposing we change the formula as stated in the article, because it covers for the various RS'es sloppy mathematics, but it's an interesting situation when all the RS'es are wrong. Jclemens (talk) 07:15, 26 July 2016 (UTC)