Cut-throat injury patients may present with airway compromise, aspiration,
acute blood loss with hypoxemia if major blood vessels are involved.
A post-mortem examination revealed she died as a result of hypoxia and
acute blood loss due to a placental abruption.
Therefore, this means the intervention has sensitised most of our participants to err on the side of caution and react quicker to
acute blood loss. This, however, does have undesirable consequences such as unnecessary expenditure, especially when scarce commodities such as blood products are consumed.
Elevated platelet values can be caused by certain malignancies,
acute blood loss, autoimmune disease, and acute infection.
Treatment of
acute blood loss anemia is directed by the patient's clinical presentation and pertinent laboratory profiles and should follow the rule of ABC (airway, breathing, and circulation).
None of the patients demonstrated symptoms of
acute blood loss anemia or required transfusion.
Indications for transfusion include symptomatic anaemia (causing shortness of breath, dizziness, congestive heart failure, and decreased exercise tolerance), acute sickle cell crisis, and
acute blood loss of more than 30 percent of blood volume.
Chronic blood loss and microcytic, hypochromic anemia is associated with decreased production and increased destruction is linked to
acute blood loss or hemolytic anemia.
(6) But when the quantification of blood loss was not available, we validated with the presence or absence of perioperative codes for
acute blood loss anemia, postoperative shock, hemorrhage, and use of blood products.