“…It is now manifestly clear that this level of acute normovolemic anemia significantly reduces the buffer ca pacity of the patient against any oscillations of the depth of anesthesia, oxygen supply, body temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, blood volume, serum electrolyte and acidbase status [26,27,100,124], It is, there fore, imperative that variations of these pa rameters be promptly recognized and treated [63,72,100,117]. Continuous surveillance of heart rate, ECG, arterial and central ve nous pressure, hematocrit and diuresis is es sential.…”