The _______________________ Is Used to Calculate the Percentage of Body

question 86

Short Answer

The _______________________ is used to calculate the percentage of body surface affected by burns in the adult, child, and infant.

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Definitions:

Half-Life

The time required for half the atoms of a radioactive substance to decay or for a drug or other substance to lose half its pharmacologic, physiologic, or radiologic activity.

Potassium-40

A radioactive isotope of potassium used in dating geological materials, as it decays into argon-40 over a known period of time.

Carbon-14

A radioactive isotope of carbon used in dating organic materials and archaeological objects through radiocarbon dating methods.

Carbon-12

A stable isotope of carbon with six protons and six neutrons, used as a standard in atomic mass units.