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Perioperative management including dual cell salvage in a Jehovah's Witness patient undergoing major urological surgery

Clinical Case Reports, 2021
Complex surgery associated with major hemorrhage presents particular risks for Jehovah's Witnesses who do not accept transfusion of blood products. Intraoperative use of two cell saver machines simultaneously can maximize the yield of salvaged blood from
Thomas G. Smith, Irina Anastasescu, James M. Wight, Anicee Danaee, Rajesh Nair, Tim S. O'Brien   +5 more
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The Reputational Configuration and Dynamics of Christian Churches in Switzerland

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how the reputation of Christian churches is configured, and which sociodemographic variables and experiences (personal or mediated) relate to it. It provides in‐depth insights into how the Swiss population evaluates Roman Catholic, Reformed Protestant, and Evangelical churches on the basis of various theories, such as ...
Rebekka Rieser, Mark Eisenegger, Jörg Schneider   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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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A single-institution experience of performing bloodless transplant in Jehovah’s Witness patients

Hematology/Oncology and Stem Cell Therapy, 2019
Objective/Background: Autologous stem cell transplant has been shown to prolong survival in multiple myeloma (MM). A common complication of the pre-transplant conditioning chemotherapy is severe multi-lineage cytopenias, resulting in significant ...
Alexander Coltoff, Aditya Shreenivas, Solmaz Afshar, Amir Steinberg   +3 more
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A Couple's Religious Affiliation Status and Charitable Giving: A Closer Look

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how religious dynamics in a household are connected to its giving patterns. Specifically, we test how a married or cohabitating heterosexual couple's religious affiliation status relates to the likelihood of donation by tracking the shifts using a three‐tiered classification: (1) general giving, (2) giving to religious and ...
Young‐Joo Lee, David P. King
wiley   +1 more source

Institutionalization of Protestantism as a way out

Українське Pелігієзнавство, 2005
The study of the current state and tendencies of the development of the traditional trends of late Protestantism in Ukraine - Baptism, Adventism and Pentecostalism, as well as Jehovah's Witnesses during 1999-2005 made it possible, in our opinion, to be ...
Petro Yarotskiy, Yu.Ye. Reshetnikov
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Staged open surgery for bicuspid aortic valve regurgitation and coarctation of the aorta in a Jehovah’s witness

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, Shigehiko Yoshida, Yoshitaka Okamura, Tomokazu Nakamura   +3 more
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Relational work with distressing voices mirroring experiences of discrimination and marginalisation: Three illustrative cases of an extended form of AVATAR therapy (AV‐EXT)

Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract Background For voice‐hearers from minoritised communities, voices may reflect interpersonal and societal discrimination, including experiences of feeling silenced or ‘voiceless’. AVATAR therapy is a relational approach involving facilitated dialogues between a voice‐hearer and a digital embodiment of their main distressing voice (the avatar ...
Thomas Ward, Hannah Ball, Alice Montague, Nikos Xanidis, Chanelle Myrie, Isobel Murcutt, Edward Oshodi, Clementine Edwards, Amy Hardy, Moya Clancy, Jeffrey McDonnell, Mar Rus‐Calafell, Hamish McLeod, Philippa Garety, Thomas Craig   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Blood transfusion in jehovah's witnesses, a dilemma in medicine?

Revista Médica del Hospital General de México, 2014
The provision of health services should be carried attached to the scientific and ethical principles of medicine. The negative to accept blood transfusion by Jehovah's Witnesses, when indicated, determines a conflict and a challenge for physicians.
Rafael Gutierrez-Vega, Adriana Cecilia Gallegos-Garza, Germán Fajardo-Dolci   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Wittgenstein On Moral Certainty

Philosophical Investigations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Moral certainty is a growing research area in philosophy with implications for current debates on hinge epistemology, moral change and deep moral disagreements. Despite several distinctive lines of disagreement, two assumptions are shared in the current discussion of moral certainty.
Cecilie Eriksen, Anne‐Marie Søndergaard Christensen   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source