Journal article
The accuracy of blood loss estimation after simulated vaginal delivery
Anesthesia and analgesia, Vol.105(6), pp.1736-1740
12/2007
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000286233.48111.d8
PMID: 18042876
Abstract
Visual blood loss estimation often underestimates blood loss. In this study we sought to determine the effect of calibrated drape markings on blood loss estimation in a simulated vaginal delivery.
Subjects were randomized to estimate simulated blood loss (300, 500, 1000, and 2000 mL) in calibrated or noncalibrated vaginal delivery drapes and then crossover.
Visual blood loss estimation with noncalibrated drapes underestimated blood loss, with worsening accuracy at larger volumes (16% error at 300 mL to 41% at 2000 mL). The calibrated drape error was <15% at all volumes.
Calibrated vaginal delivery drapes improve blood loss estimation.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The accuracy of blood loss estimation after simulated vaginal delivery
- Creators
- Paloma Toledo - Department of Anesthesiology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USARobert J McCarthyBradley J HewlettPaul C FitzgeraldCynthia A Wong
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Anesthesia and analgesia, Vol.105(6), pp.1736-1740
- Publisher
- United States
- DOI
- 10.1213/01.ane.0000286233.48111.d8
- PMID
- 18042876
- ISSN
- 0003-2999
- eISSN
- 1526-7598
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/2007
- Academic Unit
- Anesthesia
- Record Identifier
- 9984006367902771
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