Equations for calculating ideal body weight in patients on mechanical ventilation in adult intensive care units in Latin America: exploratory review
Rev. colomb. anestesiol; 49 (2), 2021
Abstract Introduction Ideal body weight calculation is used in critical medicine for drug dosing and setting ventilation parameters. However, the suggested and used equations were designed on the basis of anthropometric variables that do not represent the Latin American population. Objective To map and...