Abstract
BACKGROUND: Nowadays, there are numerous ways to assess the volume and minimize intraoperative blood loss; however, their effectiveness is subjective. To compare the effectiveness of blood-saving techniques, it is necessary to create new more reliable methods for determining intraoperative blood loss.
 AIM: To develop a new technique for determining intraoperative blood loss in the surgical treatment of burn victims.
 MATERIALS AND METHODS: In the course of the study, we have developed and proposed our own, original method for determining the volume of intraoperative blood loss, taking into account the indicators of hemoglobin and hematocrit as well as a differentiated calculation of the volume of circulating blood. This technique has been tested on 82 victims with deep burns of the II–III degree (International Classification of Diseases 10th Revision), who were admitted to the department of thermal lesions in the period from April 2021 to December 2021. The data obtained have been processed in the Microsoft Excel 2007 program as well as by generally accepted methods of nonparametric statistics.
 RESULTS: The methods currently available have a large variability of results when performing the same intervention. The developed technique shows a stable relationship between the volume of blood loss and the area of the excised scab.
 CONCLUSIONS: The data obtained allow to conclude that the new method for determining blood loss in burn victims appears to be a simple and effective method. The new technique will allow to find the most effective methods of minimizing blood loss during surgical necrectomies, which will reduce the need for additional hemotransfusions and promote earlier rehabilitation of burn treatment.
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