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Transfusão de sangue e hemocomponentes para as Testemunhas de Jeová: revisão de escopo [Blood and blood component transfusion for Jehovah´s Witnesses: a scoping review] [Transfusión de sangre y hemocomponentes para los Testigos de Jehová: revisión del alcance]

Revista Enfermagem UERJ, 2022
Objetivo: mapear os estudos que abordam a não transfusão de sangue e hemocomponentes ao paciente Testemunha de Jeová. Método: revisão de escopo, seguindo o método proposto pelo Instituto Joanna Briggs.
Quitéria Pires da Silva Rodrigues, Silvia Maria de Sá Basílio Lins, Ellen Marcia Peres, Priscila Cristina da Silva Thiengo de Andrade, Érica Brandão de Moraes, Tatiane da Silva Campos   +5 more
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The treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia in Jehovah's Witnesses and patients who cannot accept blood products

Leukemia Research Reports, 2022
Jehovah's Witnesses cannot accept blood products based upon religious beliefs, and when they present with acute leukemia, the ideal treatment strategy can be controversial. We present six cases of Jehovah's Witnesses with acute lymphoblastic leukemia and
Nina Nguyen, Ellen Madarang, Alvaro Alencar, Justin Watts, Terrence Bradley   +4 more
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Liver transplantation in Jehovah’s witnesses: 13 consecutive cases at a single institution

BMC Anesthesiology, 2020
Background Jehovah’s Witnesses represent a tremendous clinical challenge when indicated to liver transplantation because they refuse blood transfusion on religious grounds and the procedure is historically associated with potential massive peri-operative
Diego Costanzo, Maria Bindi, Davide Ghinolfi, Massimo Esposito, Francesco Corradi, Francesco Forfori, Paolo De Simone, Andrea De Gasperi, Gianni Biancofiore   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ethical and legal duty of anesthesiologists regarding Jehovah's Witness patient: care protocol

Revista Brasileira de Anestesiologia
Background and objectives: Jehovah's Witnesses patients refuse blood transfusions for religious reasons. Anesthesiologists must master specific legal knowledge to provide care to these patients.
Augusto Key Karazawa Takaschima, Thiago Mamôru Sakae, Alexandre Karazawa Takaschima, Renata dos Santos Teodoro Takaschima, Breno José Santiago Bezerra de Lima, Roberto Henrique Benedetti   +5 more
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Aortic valve replacement and repair of left ventricular pseudoaneurysm in a Jehovah's Witness

Research in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2013
The preoperative and surgical management of a giant left ventricular pseudoaneurysm(LVP) associated with aortic valve replacement in a 76 year old male Jehovah's Witness patient is reported. The satisfactory recovery observed in this patient demonstrates
Andrea Perrotti, Claude Vaislic, Sidney Chocron   +2 more
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Characteristics and outcomes of pediatric oncology patients at risk for guardians declining transfusion of blood components

Cancer Reports, 2023
Background Transfusion of blood products is a necessary part of successful delivery of myelosuppressive regimens in pediatric cancer. There is a paucity of literature characterizing outcomes or management of pediatric patients with cancer when ...
Jason Stevenson, Nicholas P. DeGroote, Frank Keller, Katharine E. Brock, D. John Bergsagel, Tamara P. Miller, Patricia Cornwell, Ross Fasano, Satheesh Chonat, Sharon M. Castellino   +9 more
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A Jehovah’s Witness with Acute Myeloid Leukemia Successfully Treated with an Epigenetic Drug, Azacitidine: A Clue for Development of Anti-AML Therapy Requiring Minimum Blood Transfusions

Case Reports in Hematology, 2014
Therapy for acute leukemia in Jehovah’s Witnesses patients is very challenging because of their refusal to accept blood transfusions, a fundamental supportive therapy for this disease.
Yumi Yamamoto, Akihito Kawashima, Eri Kashiwagi, Kiyoyuki Ogata   +3 more
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On Schopenhauer's Debt to Spinoza1

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Schopenhauer offers ‘nature is not divine but demonic’ as a direct rebuttal of Spinoza's pantheism, his identification of ‘nature’ with ‘God’. And so, one would think, he ought to have been immune to the ‘Spinozism’ that became, as Heine called it, ‘the unofficial religion’ of the age.
Julian Young
wiley   +1 more source

Transfusion Ethics in a Pediatric Jehovah's Witness Trauma Patient: Simulation Case

MedEdPORTAL, 2016
Introduction Current ethical practice allows for adult patients with decision-making capacity to refuse blood transfusion, even at the cost of high morbidity or mortality.
Mathew Malkin, John Lenart, Catherine A. Walsh, Michelle Woodfin, Marissa Vadi   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Rights of Religious Minorities [PDF]

, 1986
A travers l'évolution jurisprudentielle, l'auteur retrace la protection accordée au principe fondamental de la liberté de religion. Quel fut l'apport de la Charte canadienne des droits à cet égard ? La religion y fait l'objet de deux dispositions, soit l'
Fairweather, Gordon
core   +1 more source