A Brief History of Bloodletting Series: The Modern World
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Bloodletting in the modern world
Bloodletting, as traditionally practiced, was not always medically useful and could be very risky for patients. The extraction of large volumes of blood, in extreme cases as much as 80 percent of a patient’s blood, could lead to low blood pressure, difficulty breathing, loss of consciousness, and, in some cases, death. Bloodletting also carried a risk of infection from the implements used to create the incisions for bleeding.
Today, the word phlebotomy refers to the drawing of blood for use in diagnosis or for transfusions in conventional medicine. Phlebotomy is, arguably, a form of bloodletting—and sometimes the words are considered effectively synonymous—but the modern-day practice has nothing to do with the traditional purposes and techniques of bloodletting.
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