How We Stop Bleeding in Surgery

bleeding is a natural part of surgery and requires careful management with your anesthesiologist. fortunately, we have many tools to help support your body, even if blood is coming out from the surgery. I show the first one here, and that's epinephrine. epinephrine helps blood vessels become smaller around the site of surgery, leading to less bleeding.

we also have a tool called electrocautery, which does exactly what it sounds it would do! that helps coagulate bleeding blood vessels. that's used by your surgeon, and not your anesthesiologist typically. together, these can help reduce blood loss during surgery!