How do they prevent people from bleeding out dry during any major operation?

Question

How do they prevent people from bleeding out dry during any major operation?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Don’t cut the big blood vessels unless necessary or clamp them down if you are. Burn the small vessels to stop bleeding. And if bleeding is inevitable, give lots of blood transfusions. Liver transplant can use as much as 40 units of blood which is somewhere between 3 – 4 humans worth of blood.