Metabolic Care of the Surgical Patient

Abstract

blood volume). Operations were grouped into those that usually lead to a loss of less than 10% of the blood volume, those with a loss usually between 10% and 14%, and those with blood loss usually over 14%, in order that appropriate plans for transfusions could be made. Monitoring blood loss for nearly all pediatric operations , and a more widespread appreciation of the equivalent quantities for adults and children, would do much to reduce dangerous imbalance of blood volume. Our thanks are due to the operating room staff who willingly cooperated in the organization of blood-loss measurements.