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Perfusion for the jehovah's Witness Patient: An Example of Protocol Variability [PDF]
, 2023 Several translated verses in the New and Old Testaments provide Jehovah's Witnesses with influential guidance when they are to undertake a surgical procedure. These patients refuse to accept homologous blood or its components for transfusion.
Richard A. Raley, Robert C. Split
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Jehovah's Witnesses in A&E [PDF]
Emergency Medicine Journal, 2005 What are the rights of Jehovah’s Witnesses within the emergency department? Jehovah’s Witnesses of all ages who present to emergency departments requiring blood transfusion continue to pose significant ethical and legal dilemmas for clinicians. This arises from the perceived conflict between the clinician’s professional obligation and the legal rights
Beezhold, J, Foëx, B. A.
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Clinical Case Reports, 2022 We report the case of a Jehovah's Witness adolescent patient with immune‐mediated thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura after SARS‐Cov2 infection successfully treated without therapeutic plasma exchange (TPE) using caplacizumab, corticosteroids, rituximab,
Teresa Marta Cardesa‐Salzmann +9 more
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BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, 2020 Background Jehovah’s Witnesses refuse allogeneic blood transfusions, which makes cardiovascular surgery challenging. Surgeons must minimize blood and fluid loss within one procedure.
Kohei Sumi +3 more
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Repeat Cardiac Surgery in a Jehovah's Witness Patient With Thrombocytopenia [PDF]
, 2011 Complex cardiac surgery in Jehovah's Witness patients can be challenging, especially if it is a reoperation and the patient has a preexisting bleeding disorder.
Marc Ruel +11 more
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First Lung Transplantation in Jehovah’s Witness Patient in Latin America
Clinical Medicine Insights: Case Reports, 2020 Lung transplantation is a life-saving alternative for patients with end-stage lung disease. The procedure itself has a high risk of bleeding. Jehovah’s Witness patients refuse to accept blood products due to religious beliefs.
Liliana Fernandez-Trujillo +8 more
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Management of the Jehovah's Witness Oncology Patient: Perspective of the Transfusion Service [PDF]
, 1995 Due to refusal of blood component transfusions, Jehovah's Witness patients with cancer present a challenge to oncologists who must find appropriate and acceptable treatments.
Kaaron Benson
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SAGE Open Medical Case Reports, 2017 Jehovah’s Witness patients pose a unique surgical challenge due to their refusal of transfusion of whole blood or major blood products. One of the surgical strategies is to offer the least invasive approach with the least likelihood of losing blood.
Medhat Y Fanous +3 more
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Les Témoins de Jéhovah : un mouvement religieux aux caractéristiques d’un mouvement social
Études Caribéennes, 2014 This article observes that Jehovah’s Witnesses share similarities with a social movement. The writer uses the descriptions that sociologists such as Alain Touraine and Herbert Blumer give of social movements.
Christophe Zamord
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The Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgeon Reports, 2015 Left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation without the use of any blood products is considered as a challenge. We present a 48-year-old patient (175 cm, 75 kg, body mass index 24.5 kg/m2) who was admitted to our clinic due to end-stage heart ...
Jasmin S. Hanke +3 more
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