Purpose: To determine appropriate blood orders for a patient prior to a surgical procedure.				Citations with documentation. 05.01.06	Sriram & Svirbely 2000
conversion	enter
hemoglobin in g/L		g/L equals	0	g/dL
data	enter
Are you trying to determine the preoperative blood orders for a surgical patient? (Y or N)		:-):-):-)
age of the patient in years		years				0
preoperative hemoglobin in g/dL		g/dL				0
enter an "x" in the appropriate column to indicate expected blood loss (give only 1 answer)
	none	low	moderate	high
expected blood loss					Yes	200
calculate	result
data complete?	Yes
evaluation appropriate?	Yes	:-):-):-)
number of risk factors for blood transfusion present	1
appropriate blood order	type & screen