Acceptable blood loss in cardiac surgery.

 It's hard to make decision about reexporation after cardiac surgery. This table helps to identify acceptable blood loss. 

But it's more difficult to divide "surgical" (from blood vessel) and "anesthetic" (coagulopathic) blood loss 😀


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