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Hyportensive Anesthesia for Scoliosis Surgery in Jehovahʼs Witnesses
SPINE, 1991Hypotensive anesthesia has been advocated in spinal surgery for the purpose of diminishing operative blood loss. This study evaluated its effectiveness in 12 Jehovah's Witnesses undergoing Harrington instrumentation and fusion who refused transfusion. Previous series from this institute did not use deliberate hypotension because of routinely low blood ...
J W, Brodsky +3 more
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Strategies and Outcomes of Cardiac Surgery in Jehovah's Witnesses
Journal of Cardiac Surgery, 2011Jehovah's Witnesses (JW) are a Christian faith, with an estimated 1.1 million members in the United States, well recognized for their refusal of blood and blood products. JW may not be considered for cardiac surgery due to perceived higher risks of morbidity and mortality. This study reviews our contemporary strategies and experience with JW undergoing
Robert J, Moraca +6 more
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Cardiovascular Surgery in Jehovah's Witnesses
JAMA, 1977Jehovah's Witnesses who require operation represent a challenge to the physician because of the patients' refusal to accept blood transfusion. We report a 20-year experience with a consecutive series of 542 Jehovah's Witness patients ranging in age from 1 day to 89 years who underwent operation. Early mortality (within 30 days after operation) was 9.4%.
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[Cardiac surgery in Jehovah's Witness].
Kyobu geka. The Japanese journal of thoracic surgery, 1998Clinical experiences of 35 cardiothoracic operations in Jehovah's Witness patients were presented with special reference to a method of taking informed consent for surgery. At first the surgeon explained the details of the proposed surgery including its risks and benefits.
A, Furuse +4 more
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Open-Heart Surgery in Jehovahs Witnesses
1991Efforts to reduce blood loss and subsequent donor blood transfusions have gained increasing importance in open-heart surgery over the last few years [1, 2, 4, 8, 16].
Volker Schlosser, G. Fraedrich
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Surgery in Jehovah's Witnesses.
Journal of the National Medical Association, 1986Surgical experiences are described with 96 adult patients who professed and practiced the Jehovah's Witness faith and whose refusal of blood transfusions and blood-related products created problems in circulatory fluid volume, cardiorespiratory exchanges, cerebral, hepatic, and renal metabolic processes, and wound healing.
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Cardiac Surgery in Jehovah’s Witnesses
1998The Jehovah’s Witnesses are members of a religious organization that was founded in the 1870s as a nondenominational Christian study group by a Pennsylvanian named Charles Taze Russell.1 The Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society was formed in 1881. The Watch Tower Society was headquartered in Brooklyn, New York in 1909, and has subsequently grown into an
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MAJOR SURGERY IN JEHOVAH??S WITNESSES
Survey of Anesthesiology, 1977B, Gardner +3 more
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ANESTHESIA AND SURGERY FOR JEHOVAH??S WITNESSES
Survey of Anesthesiology, 1962M, MINUCK, R S, LAMBIE
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Erythropoietin in Jehova's witness heart surgery.
Minerva cardioangiologica, 1999The patients, reported here, needed open heart surgery, but religion obliged them to refuse blood transfusion. Three of the four patients suffered from obstructive coronary diseases and one from mitral valvular disease, prevalently stenosis. All of them refused blood transfusions.
A, Podestà, E, Carmagnini
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