title: Proportional criterion of metabolic activity and fundamentals of drug dosage.
abstract: A method for determining the drug dose is proposed, according to which the dose of injected drug is proportional to body weight to the power 2/3. The dosage of narcotic analgesic ketamine is in good agreement with the proposed relationship.
authors.affiliation: Military Medical Academy, St. Petersburg.
authors.forename: I I
authors.initials: II
authors.lastname: Turkovskii
authors.forename: A N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Kuznetsov
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001835:Body Weight; D004285:Dogs; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D008660:Metabolism; D011817:Rabbits; D051381:Rats