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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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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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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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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 +5 more
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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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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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Pseudoaneurysm with risk of imminent rupture in Jehovah’s Witness patient
Revista Médica del Hospital General de México, 2022 Emergency surgery for vascular trauma is associated with a high risk of bleeding, which often requires blood transfusions. We present the case of a patient with gunshot injury with pseudoaneurysms of the giant femoral artery with skin dissection and ...
Miguel A. Sierra-Juárez +2 more
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Hematology Reports, 2014 Blood transfusion many times works in a life-saving way when a patient is facing a critical situation. However, some patients, such as Jehovah’s Witnesses, may refuse their administration because it opposes to their religion beliefs. Thus, clinicians are
Alexandra Agapidou +4 more
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Ethical and legal duty of anesthesiologists regarding Jehovah's Witness patient: care protocol
Revista Brasileira de AnestesiologiaBackground 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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