The role of mitral annular plane systolic excursion in prediction of acute blood loss in healthy voluntary blood donors

Abstract

The aim of this study is to compare the diameter of the inferior vena cava with mitral annular plane systolic excursion measurement in order to determine the volume loss before and after blood donation in healthy volunteers.

Keywords

• point-of-care ultrasound
• emergency
• hypovolemia
• inferior vena cava
• mitral annular plane systolic excursion