For use in patients with stable renal function to estimate creatinine clearance. When to Use Pearls/Pitfalls Why Use Sex Female Male Age years Weight lbs Creatinine mg/dL The Cockcroft-Gault Equation may be inaccurate depending on a patient's body weight and BMI; by providing additional ...
Calculating creatinine clearance was a "simple" resident research project designed by Dr. Henry Gault, my mentor at the time. We set out to evaluate the accuracy of a creatinine clearance nomogram bySiersbaek-Nielsen (1971). Our data, almost identical to that used to create the nomogram, resu...