beachpedaler, you are more than welcome to beg to differ but the math is the math. I'm just saying it takes alot of fluid lose to raise a persons Hct. up. So much that it would be detrimental to a persons athletic performance if you didnt re-hydratye yourself.

And as I said earlier, from those lab values, you cannot make a determination....

Two weeks ago I had 15 minutes to get a patients Hct. from .18 to .30. How did I do it? I transfused four units of PRBC's (packed red blood cells) and removed 1,500cc's of plasma water at the same time.... I can forward you the mathematical formulas if you'd like.