Disclaimer:

The following website contains a calculation tool to estimate extremity volume for isolated limb perfusion and isolated limb infusion as explained in our article (Podleska, Poeppel, Herbrik, Dahlkamp, Grabellus, Taeger: Drug dosage in isolated limb perfusion: Evaluation of a limb volume model for extremity volume calculation; 2014; World Journal of Surgical Oncology; 12:81 ).

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The calculation tool provided has been developed with great care and to the best of our knowledge. However, the authors cannot take any liability resulting from the use of this tool.

This tool was solely developed for the purpose of extremity volume calculation in isolated limb perfusion. It must only be used by healthcare professionals who have been properly trained and have proper experience in this procedure. It is supposed to serve as a reference for the calculation.

This tool however should never overrule the physician’s personal experience in drug dosage during isolated limb perfusion (also refer to the warning below)!

This website and all of its contents are subject to German copyright law. Any distribution, processing or duplication requires the written consent of the authors.

Warning:

This model has been correlated with exact volume data from CT-scans. However there is no data on underweight patients, especially not on drug dosing in underweight patients.

Since this model would try to increase the calculated limb volume in underweight patients and might therefore lead to an overdose we strongly recommend not to increase the limb volume above the true measured limb volume.

In other words: If the IWB to AWB-ratio is above 1.0 use the measured volume (left field) for drug dosage calculation.