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Acute blood loss

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acute blood loss
Internal medicine A state of vascular instability caused by external or internal hemorrhage Clinical Supine tachycardia > 100/min, ↑ pulse > 30/min, supine or postural hypotension. See Dehydration, Volume depletion.


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This may be the result of an acute blood loss or it may be of a chronic nature, such as an anemia combined with dehydration.
within the first few hours of acute blood loss, prior to hemodilution (compensatory increase in plasma volume), there may be no decrease in the hemoglobin, hematocrit, and red cell count because of a parallel loss of both red cells and plasma.
Mr Pitman says: "Melanie's case was certainly one of the most dramatic cases of acute blood loss that I have seen in nearly 15 years of obstetric practice.
 
 
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