Fig. 6. Predicted relationship between microcirculatory hematocrit and the volume that must be transferred from the microcirculation in order to produce the change in hematocrit observed after 35% hemorrhage (Table 3). If microcirculatory hematocrit was 10, then over 7 ml kg^-1 would be instantaneously transferred into the macrocirculation in order to produce the observed systemic hematocrit of 23.8 (see Table 3).

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