Measurement of blood loss in clinical studies

¹Department of Surgery, Danderyd Hospital, Sweden.

European Journal of Anaesthesiology. Supplement

|March 1, 1997

Abstract:

Direct measurement of blood loss has poor reliability and poor validity. A formula is proposed for how blood loss may be calculated from pre- and post-operative haemoglobin, taking the influence of any blood transfusions into account.

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