Table 1.

Frommes’ Bleeding Scale

0	No bleeding, ideal surgical field
1	Mild bleeding, aspiration not required
2	Mild bleeding, occasional requirement of aspiration
3	Significant bleeding, frequent aspiration required, if aspiration is discontinued for 5 seconds surgical field is impaired
4	Diffuse bleeding, continuous aspiration required
5	Abundant bleeding, even with continuous aspiration surgical field is obscured and surgery not impossible