Model for cardiovascular response to hypovolemia from hemorrhage (based on normative data)

Blood pressure in hypovolemic children is maintained by increases in vascular resistance until hypovolemia exceeds 30 percent.

Data from Schwaitzberg, SD, Bergman, KS, Harris, BH, A Peditric trauma model of continuous hemorrhage. J Pediatr Surg 1988; 23:606.

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