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Jehovah’s witness patient undergoing major surgery: Methods to minimize blood loss

Jehovah's Witnesses are a group of people who refuses to get blood transfusions and blood products due to their faith. Due to this, Jehovah's Witness patients who are planned for major surgical procedures are always a challenge for both surgeons and anaesthetist. Surgical and anaesthetic t...

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Main Authors: T Kumaravadivel Dharmalingam, Liew, Constance Sat Lin, Rajesh Kumar Muniandy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Gazi University Medical Faculty 2020
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RD Surgery
Online Access:https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/25304/1/Jehovahs%20witness%20patient%20undergoing%20major%20surgery%20Methods%20to%20minimize%20blood%20loss.pdf
https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/25304/
https://doi.org/10.12996/gmj.2020.15
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spelling my.ums.eprints.253042020-04-16T03:49:42Z https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/25304/ Jehovah’s witness patient undergoing major surgery: Methods to minimize blood loss T Kumaravadivel Dharmalingam Liew, Constance Sat Lin Rajesh Kumar Muniandy RD Surgery Jehovah's Witnesses are a group of people who refuses to get blood transfusions and blood products due to their faith. Due to this, Jehovah's Witness patients who are planned for major surgical procedures are always a challenge for both surgeons and anaesthetist. Surgical and anaesthetic techniques must be aimed at minimising blood loss. We are reporting a peri-operative management for a Jehovah's Witness patient scheduled for a major surgery. This article emphasizes the techniques to minimize blood lose, in order to avoid blood transfusion. Gazi University Medical Faculty 2020 Article PeerReviewed text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/25304/1/Jehovahs%20witness%20patient%20undergoing%20major%20surgery%20Methods%20to%20minimize%20blood%20loss.pdf T Kumaravadivel Dharmalingam and Liew, Constance Sat Lin and Rajesh Kumar Muniandy (2020) Jehovah’s witness patient undergoing major surgery: Methods to minimize blood loss. Gazi Medical JOurnal, 31. pp. 59-60. ISSN 2147-2092 https://doi.org/10.12996/gmj.2020.15
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T Kumaravadivel Dharmalingam
Liew, Constance Sat Lin
Rajesh Kumar Muniandy
Jehovah’s witness patient undergoing major surgery: Methods to minimize blood loss
description Jehovah's Witnesses are a group of people who refuses to get blood transfusions and blood products due to their faith. Due to this, Jehovah's Witness patients who are planned for major surgical procedures are always a challenge for both surgeons and anaesthetist. Surgical and anaesthetic techniques must be aimed at minimising blood loss. We are reporting a peri-operative management for a Jehovah's Witness patient scheduled for a major surgery. This article emphasizes the techniques to minimize blood lose, in order to avoid blood transfusion.
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author T Kumaravadivel Dharmalingam
Liew, Constance Sat Lin
Rajesh Kumar Muniandy
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Liew, Constance Sat Lin
Rajesh Kumar Muniandy
author_sort T Kumaravadivel Dharmalingam
title Jehovah’s witness patient undergoing major surgery: Methods to minimize blood loss
title_short Jehovah’s witness patient undergoing major surgery: Methods to minimize blood loss
title_full Jehovah’s witness patient undergoing major surgery: Methods to minimize blood loss
title_fullStr Jehovah’s witness patient undergoing major surgery: Methods to minimize blood loss
title_full_unstemmed Jehovah’s witness patient undergoing major surgery: Methods to minimize blood loss
title_sort jehovah’s witness patient undergoing major surgery: methods to minimize blood loss
publisher Gazi University Medical Faculty
publishDate 2020
url https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/25304/1/Jehovahs%20witness%20patient%20undergoing%20major%20surgery%20Methods%20to%20minimize%20blood%20loss.pdf
https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/25304/
https://doi.org/10.12996/gmj.2020.15
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