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Aortic valve replacement and repair of left ventricular pseudoaneurysm in a Jehovah's Witness

open access: yesResearch 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   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Treatment Experience for a Child with Ewing Sarcoma who Refused to Receive Blood Transfusions for Religious Reasons as a Jehovah’s Witness

open access: yesClinical Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, 2022
Ewing sarcoma is a solid tumor involving the bone and/or surrounding soft tissue, which requires multidisciplinary treatment, primarily through a combination of surgery and chemotherapy and, in some cases, radiation therapy.
Kyu Sik Cho   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Major abdominal surgery for Jehovah’s Witnesses: Challenge while practicing bloodless medicine in a middle income country

open access: yesSAGE Open Medical Case Reports, 2023
We present a 59-year-old female Jehovah’s Witness patient transferred from another facility to our tertiary center as an emergency case owing to anemia due to gastrointestinal bleeding.
Aleksandra Gavrilovska-Brzanov   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Welcoming a Jehovah’s Witness into the Band Room: Questions to Ask and Practices to Implement [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Can we treat students who are Jehovah’s Witnesses like any other students by accommodating for their unique needs and ensuring a quality educational opportunity for all students within a performance music ...
Weidner, Brian N.
core   +1 more source

A Farewell to Arms… Manufacturing: Learning From a Landmine Producer Who Became a Deminer

open access: yesBusiness Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Certain industries—labeled “dirty,” “sinful,” “stigmatized,” or “controversial”—are under public scrutiny because of the ethical, social, and environmental concerns that they raise. Previous research has typically focused on the industry or organizational level of analysis, examining how companies in controversial industries can enhance their ...
Marco Guerci, Luca Carollo
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

open access: yesCase 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   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hemoglobin-Based Oxygen Carrier for Traumatic Hemorrhagic Shock Treatment in a Jehovah’s Witness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Introduction: Treatment of severe hemorrhagic shock due to acute blood loss from traumatic injuries in a Jehovah’s witness (JW) trauma patient is very challenging since hemostatic blood product resuscitation is limited by refusal of the transfusion of ...
Napolitano, L. M., Posluszny, J. A.
core   +1 more source

Beneficence‐Based Obligations and Ethics Consultation in Assisted Dying

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In ethical debates on assisted dying, the principle of respect for autonomy is usually invoked to justify respecting requests for assisted dying. However, there are not only autonomy‐based obligations, but also obligations arising from the principle of beneficence towards persons requesting assisted dying.
Georg Marckmann, Anna Hirsch
wiley   +1 more source

The Jehovah’s Witness obstetric patient – a literature review

open access: yesAnaesthesiology Intensive Therapy, 2019
The patient’s right to refuse blood transfusion must be honoured in case of its clear expression. Some special pharmacologic and/or surgical procedures can be useful in a Jehovah Witness (JW) parturient.
Aleksandra Rajewska   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

On Schopenhauer's Debt to Spinoza1

open access: yesEuropean 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

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