Abstract
The normal blood volume is 80 ml/kg (40*ml/lb) body weight. A child weighing 20 kg (441b) has a blood volume of about 1600 ml (1.61) whereas the adult weighing 70 kg (150 lb) has a blood volume of approximately 5.61. Immediately it is obvious that a loss of 0.5 1 of blood in such a child deprives him of one-third of his blood volume and is therefore more serious than the same loss in an adult which amounts to only one-eleventh of his blood volume. Similarly, it is apparent that transfusion of 0.51 of blood to a child has a much greater chance of overloading his circulation than it has in the adult patient.
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Wilson, F. (1981). Blood volume maintenance and restoration. In: Essential Accident and Emergency Care. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6241-8_15
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