Equations of Bourke and Smith for Estimating Allowable Hemodilution

Purpose: To estimate the allowable blood loss for a patient having colloid volume replacement using the equations of Bourke and Smith.

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Evaluation

Are you evaluating a patient who is bleeding and who is to be replaced with colloid solutions?

Yes

Patient's age

years

Patient's gender

Male

Female

Body weight

Initial hematocrit (enter as a percent from 1 to 100)

percent

Final allowable hematocrit (enter as a percent from 1 to 100)

percent

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Results Interpretation and Description References Next Steps

Data complete?

Evaluation appropriate?

Estimated blood volume by body weight

Allowable loss by equation 1

Allowable loss by equation 2

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Interpretation and Description

References

Next Steps in Evaluation

Diagnosis

Risk Factors
Other Testing
Criteria For Diagnosis
Severity, Prognosis, Stage
Complications
Differential Diagnosis And Mimics, Red Flags
- Predicting Need for Allogenic Blood Transfusion Following Surgery for Lung Cancer

Therapy

Options
- Transfusion Planning Algorithm of Weber in Surgical Patients with Cancer of the Head and Neck (TPRA Model)
Selection
Dosage Calculations

Monitoring

Complication Detection
- Risk Index of McCluskey et al for Predicting Massive Blood Transfusion Associated with Liver Transplant Surgery

Specialty

Clinical Laboratory
Surgery, general
Anesthesiology
Emergency Medicine
Critical Care

Objective

severity
prognosis
stage
complications
selection

ICD-10

D62 - Acute posthaemorrhagic anaemia
Z51.3 - Blood transfusion [without reported diagnosis]

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Purpose: To estimate the allowable blood loss for a patient having colloid volume replacement using the equations of Bourke and Smith.

Specialty: Clinical Laboratory, Surgery, general, Anesthesiology, Emergency Medicine, Critical Care

Objective: severity, prognosis, stage, complications, selection

ICD-10: D62, Z51.3,

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