Originally Posted by miamijim
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.
Miami Jim, hopefully your just a nurses assistant and whomever that cardiac surgeon is, don't let him get near me. Here's a link from the web about hematocrit and dehydration.
www.labtestsonline.org/understanding/ analytes/hemoglobin/faq.html