Our facility uses the Haycock formula for our Meditech BSA (body surface area) calculations; our current MT version gives us a choice in our Customer-defined Parameters between Dubois, Haycock, or "other".
Recently, we have been approached about changing the BSA formula from Haycock, to Mosteller:
Mosteller BSA (m2) = Square Root of [ wt(kg) x ht(cm) divided by 3600 ]
Has anyone been able to plug numbers into the Customer-Defined Parameters BSA Calculation Type fields to get the Mosteller formula to work?
I wanted to ask the L-list first, before attempting to revisit my high school math days! (LOL)
TIA
Richard