Table 1.
Subject characteristics (n = 66, M = 48, F = 18).
Table 2.
Resting energy expenditures of burn patients grouped based on extent TBSA at indicated post-burn day (PBD).
Figure 1.
Three-dimensional display of the average REE data of burned patients plotted vs. TBSA and PBD.
Circles represent average REE measurements.
Table 3.
Definitions and units of the parameters in equations (1) and (2).
Table 4.
Formulas commonly used in clinical practice.
Table 5.
Results of the multiple linear regression for energy consumption estimation.
Figure 2.
Comparison of estimates from energy consumption estimation formulas and experimental data.
(A) Non-linear estimation formula (4) and (B) linear estimation formula (5). The circles represent average REE measurements for each patient.
Figure 3.
Comparison of accuracy and reliability of different formulas.
“*” denotes comparison with the new non-linear estimation formula; “+” indicates comparison with the new linear estimation formula; “*” or “+” indicates P <0.05; “**” or “+ +” indicates P <0.01.
Table 6.
Comparisons between the newly built formula and commonly used formulas with different combinations of PBD and TBSA.
Figure 4.
Reliabilities of different formulas.
The solid line represents the ideal case of complete match between REE estimates and REE measurements (), and the dashed lines represent 20% over or below the ideal match. Data points that fall between the two dashed lines are indicated by blue “*”; those outside are indicated by red “o”. Percentage represents the proportion of data points that fell between the two dashed lines. MEE, measured resting energy expenditure.