The maintenance and monitoring of perioperative blood volume

Takehiko Iijima, Birgitte Brandstrup, Peter Rodhe, Audrius Andrijauskas, Christer H Svensen

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Abstract

The assessment and maintenance of perioperative blood volume is important because fluid therapy is a routine part of intraoperative care. In the past, patients undergoing major surgery were given large amounts of fluids because health-care providers were concerned about preoperative dehydration and intraoperative losses to a third space. In the last decade it has become clear that fluid therapy has to be more individualized. Because the exact determination of blood volume is not clinically possible at every timepoint, there have been different approaches to assess fluid requirements, such as goal-directed protocols guided by invasive and less invasive devices.This article focuses on laboratory volume determination, capillary dynamics, aspects of different fluids and how to clinically assess and monitor perioperative blood volume.

Original languageEnglish
Article number9
JournalPerioperative Medicine
Volume2
Number of pages12
ISSN2047-0525
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013

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