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Surgery in Jehovah's Witnesses – our experience
INTRODUCTION Surgeons face a special challenge in treating Jehovah's Witnesses who refuse blood transfusion. AIM To present our surgical experience with this group of patients operated on in our department. MATERIAL AND METHODS A retrospective study of 16 unselected Jehovah's Witnesses patients was conducted between October 2004 and February 2012. We analysed gender, age, haemogram before a...
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This is a retrospective study of the outcome of surgical procedures in patients who were Jehovah's Witnesses. Over a 75-month period, 58 Jehovah's Witness patients had 78 surgical procedures at the Vancouver General Hospital. Three patients had preexisting anaemia of less than 100 g . Li haemoglobin. Postoperative haemoglobin concentration decreased below 50 g .L -I in three patients. One patie...
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As patients who are Jehovah's Witnesses are against blood transfusion, they are difficult to manage when a cardiac intervention is required. Between 1998 and 2004, all Jehovah's Witness patients with an indication for cardiac surgery (n=10) were operated on by the same multidisciplinary team. The mean fall in hematocrit was 30% during cardiopulmonary bypass, 35% during the postoperative period,...
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Background: We compared the clinical outcomes of cardiac valve surgery in adult Jehovah’s Witness patients refusing blood transfusion to those in non-Jehovah’s Witness patients without any transfusion limitations. Methods: From 2005 to 2014, 25 Jehovah’s Witnesses (JW group) underwent cardiac valve surgery using a blood conservation strategy. Twenty-five matched control patients (non-JW group) ...
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Police investigators agree that eyewitnesses usually provide central leads in their investigations (Berresheim and Weber, 2003; George and Clifford, 1992; Kebbell and Milne, 1998). Police lament, however, that witnesses rarely provide sufficient information (Kebbell and Milne, 1998). How might police improve the quality and quantity of evidence elicited from eyewitnesses? Unfortunately, police ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1473-6357,1478-7075
DOI: 10.1308/rcsbull.2019.16