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Vascular surgery in Jehovah's Witnesses.

JAMA, 1970
Twenty Jehovah's Witnesses (age range: 17 months to 76 years) underwent central or peripheral vascular surgery for congenital or acquired disease. Two patients died: one (74 years old) from myocardial infarction, the other after a subsequent open heart operation.
C W, Simmons, B J, Messmer, G L, Hallman, D A, Cooley   +3 more
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Open-heart surgery in Jehovah's Witness patients

Cardiovascular Surgery, 1996
Open-heart surgery has been performed since 1975 on 25 patients who are Jehovah's Witnesses by religion. The patients' ages ranged from 6–60 years, and their body weights from 18–51 kg. Surgical procedures included correction of congenital heart disease in 14 patients and valve repair or replacement in 11. Six procedures were reoperations.
M, Chikada, A, Furuse, Y, Kotsuka, K, Yagyu   +3 more
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Hyportensive Anesthesia for Scoliosis Surgery in Jehovahʼs Witnesses

SPINE, 1991
Hypotensive 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, J H, Dickson, W D, Erwin, C D, Rossi   +3 more
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Strategies and Outcomes of Cardiac Surgery in Jehovah's Witnesses

Journal of Cardiac Surgery, 2011
Jehovah'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, Kelly M, Wanamaker, Stephen H, Bailey, Walter E, McGregor, Daniel H, Benckart, Thomas D, Maher, George J, Magovern   +6 more
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Preparing a Jehovah's Witness for major elective surgery

BMJ, 2013
A 75 year old woman who was scheduled to undergo elective right sided mastectomy and axillary node clearance was seen in the preoperative assessment clinic. She had been diagnosed as having a grade 3 invasive ductal carcinoma (human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER 2) positive and oestrogen receptor (ER) positive).
Lillian, Cooper, Kathryn, Ford, Elizabeth, Miller   +2 more
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Cardiovascular Surgery in Jehovah's Witnesses

JAMA, 1977
Jehovah'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, 1998
Clinical 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, Y, Kotsuka, M, Kawauchi, O, Tanaka, K, Hirata   +4 more
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Cardiac Surgery in Jehovah’s Witnesses

1998
The 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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Surgery in Jehovah's Witnesses.

Journal of the National Medical Association, 1986
Surgical 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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Open-Heart Surgery in Jehovahs Witnesses

1991
Efforts 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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