Anaes Vivas · Plastics and burns anaesthesia
Burn resuscitation: Parkland formula, endpoints, and fluid creep — viva
Structured oral examination station for burn-resuscitation-parkland.
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Whiteboard with blank Parkland equation and a urine output chart showing 1.5 mL/kg/h for 4 hours.
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State the one-line answer first: 4 mL per kilo per percent TBSA of Hartmann, half in 8 hours from injury, titrated to urine output — the formula is only the starting rate.[6][5]
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