Acta Med. 2023, 66: 133-137
Methods of Blood Loss Quantification in Major Abdominal Surgery: A Narrative Review
aDepartment of Military Surgery, University of Defence, Military Faculty of Medicine, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
bDepartment of Surgery, University Hospital and Charles University, Faculty of Medicine, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
cDepartment of Urology, University Hospital and Charles University, Faculty of Medicine, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
Received December 6, 2023
Accepted January 18, 2024
Blood loss in major abdominal surgery is an essential parameter in the evaluation of strategies aimed at reducing perioperative bleeding. It is also an important parameter of quality of the surgical procedure, along with postoperative morbidity and mortality, radicality of the surgical resection, etc. However, blood loss quantification remains unreliable and inaccurate. The methods used to measure blood loss can be categorized as visual estimation, gravimetric method, direct measurement, spectrophotometry, calculation methods, colorimetric analysis, and miscellaneous. The aim of this work is to review up-to-date knowledge about the various methods of blood loss quantification and then to introduce study, which should compare more methods of blood loss quantification in a real surgical setting.
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The study was supported by the Faculty of Military Health Sciences, University of Defense in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic, research project No. MO0FVZ0000503.
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