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Burn Total Body Surface Area (Wallace Rule of Nines, Adult) calculator

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% TBSA

Allowed range: 0–9 % TBSA

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% TBSA

Allowed range: 0–9 % TBSA

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% TBSA

Allowed range: 0–9 % TBSA

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% TBSA

Allowed range: 0–9 % TBSA

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% TBSA

Allowed range: 0–9 % TBSA

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% TBSA

Allowed range: 0–18 % TBSA

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% TBSA

Allowed range: 0–18 % TBSA

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% TBSA

Allowed range: 0–1 % TBSA

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Clinical inputs

  • Head and neck burn (% TBSA)Accepted range: 0 to 9
  • Anterior trunk burn (% TBSA)Accepted range: 0 to 9
  • Posterior trunk burn (% TBSA)Accepted range: 0 to 9
  • Right arm burn (% TBSA)Accepted range: 0 to 9
  • Left arm burn (% TBSA)Accepted range: 0 to 9
  • Right leg burn (% TBSA)Accepted range: 0 to 18
  • Left leg burn (% TBSA)Accepted range: 0 to 18
  • Perineum burn (% TBSA)Accepted range: 0 to 1

Primary source

Wallace AB. The exposure treatment of burns. Lancet. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(00)55578-2. PMID: 14884765. Scope: adult Wallace rule of nines assigns 9% TBSA each to head/neck, anterior trunk, posterior trunk, and each arm; 18% to each leg; 1% to perineum; total burn TBSA is the sum of burned percentages by region. (1951)

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