Physicians develop method using fist to estimate blood loss at scene of trauma
Friday, December 18, 2009 - 14:21
in Health & Medicine
Determining blood loss at the scene of trauma can be critical to successful patient treatment. Health care workers such as emergency medical technicians have used visual estimation, which can be highly inaccurate, as their only means of determining volumes of blood loss. A new, simple method may drastically improve their accuracy.