who would need to know this crap

In my lab, I am continually cutting myself and trying to measure how much blood I can lose before I pass out or die.  Everytime I end up waking up in the hospital and can't remember how far I got.  Now I'll know when to apply pressure!  Thanks!
PS Luke is right!

Any nurse or physician working with sick patients would need to know this!

As a doctor, it's important to know how much blood-letting is appropriate in one session, to get as much of the bad blood out as possible without killing the patient.

Well, *I* use this allowable blood loss calculator all the time (I'm one of the authors). It helps me make decisions about how close to needing to transfuse someone I am and when to double check a hematrocrit before doing so.  I also use it to cheat and calculate the blood loss working backwards from the hematocrit to double-check my impression of what blood loss during a case was.

Ahh, another example of why the "anyone can post a comment, even kids with nothing better to do" is such a bad idea on most sites.

You offer a useful medical tool for free, and kids who don't understand it decide to trash-talk it.

True, but sure you can just ignore them. What formulae do you use?

i wanted to know how much blood loss it takes to pass out

So how much blood can one lose before they pass out or die?

That's what I would like to know....

I'm fifteen years old...And I'm also a writer who would need that information to make my stories a lot more accurate...

my grandfather has terminal bladder cancer that has caused him to piss straight blood for 2 weeks just wondering how much more blood he can lose

Grave I am in the same boat your in, I'm here to learn this also because I want to make a story of mine accurate.

Clark is exactly right.   I had been on the trauma table and this information was monitored every 5 hours to determine weather or not i would need emergency surgery due to an internal organ injury i suffered....

So to the kids who post on here keep playing your video games, this is an excellent tool and potential life saver

a billion fucking gallons. fuckers, answer the fucking question.

Id like to know this information because im a self injurer and id like to know when to apply pressure so i dont end up back in the hospital.

fuckytitass

Well, according to what I've read thus far, the average person has about 6 quarts of blood right? Well, you can stand to lose about 40% of that before you need quick medical attention and end up dying from blood loss. That's about 2.4 quarts of blood lost before you die. That's about 2.27 liters out of about 5.6 liters. I was in the same boat as Grave and Heath, so I decided to let people know. I'm no pro, so I may be wrong. This is just my research thus far

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a am on my period and wondering how much blood i can lose before i pass out, i looked at this and boom, my vagina exploded and i died. later in heavon god told me i was a fucking asshole for not looking at this erlier.
THANKS A LOT BIS-NITCH!

Seth, don't be such a stuffed shirt. The internet is for everybody, in case you didn't realize that.



Thank you Google, this came in handy.