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52-Year-Old Jehovah’s Witness Female with Weakness [PDF]
Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine, 2018 Lindsay A. Weiner +3 more
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Brain and Spine, 2022 Introduction: Early onset scoliosis (EOS) represent a challenge for spine surgeons. The selection of the best treatment is complex. Some patients, such as Jehovah's Witnesses who refuse blood transfusions, are at high risk of complication when surgical ...
Michele Da Broi +4 more
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Emergency Care Journal, 2021 The management of an acute hemolytic event in a patient suffering from favism is based on transfusion support to ensure adequate tissue oxygenation. If this measure could not be pursued, in case of severe anemia the risk of death from multiorgan failure ...
Massimo Salvetti +5 more
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Best Interest of a Minor Theist: An American and Religiously Informed Response to Canada’s A.C. v. Manitoba [PDF]
, 2014 Objective The objective of this study was to examine the prevalence of self-reported experiences of potential childhood traumas and polytraumatization, and to find cut-off values for different kinds of potential traumatic events in a national ...
Dahlström, Örjan +3 more
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Blood Conservation Strategy during Cardiac Valve Surgery in Jehovah’s Witnesses: a Comparative Study with Non-Jehovah’s Witnesses [PDF]
Korean Journal of Critical Care Medicine, 2016 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
Tae Sik Kim +2 more
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Ethical and legal duty of anesthesiologists regarding Jehovah's Witness patient: care protocol
Revista Brasileira de Anestesiologia, 2016 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 +5 more
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Major abdominal surgery in Jehovah’s Witnesses [PDF]
, 2016 Introduction Patients who are Jehovah’s Witnesses pose difficult ethical and moral dilemmas for surgeons because of their refusal to receive blood and blood products.
DN Lobo +6 more
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Banal, benign or pernicious? The relationship between religion and national identity from the perspective of religious minorities in Greece [PDF]
, 2014 ‘Kokkinakis is in the drawer’. With these words a representative of the Greek ombudsman offers important insight into religious freedoms as experienced by religious minorities in the Greek context.
Fokas, Effie
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Current Problems in Cancer: Case Reports, 2021 Jehovah's Witnesses are known to decline transfusion of blood products. We present a case of an adult Jehovah's Witness with Philadelphia chromosome (pH)-positive B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) managed successfully using less intensive ...
Erika Belinda.T. Chen +2 more
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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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