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Continuing Education in Anaesthesia Critical Care and Pain | Volume 4 Number 2 | 2004
© The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia 2004

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27. A blood transfusion may lawfully be administered to:
  1. An adult Jehovah's Witness undergoing elective surgery if the anaesthetist feels it would be in the patient's best interests.
  2. An adult patient in an emergency whose Jehovah's Witness status is uncertain.
  3. An unconscious adult patient who is carrying an advance directive indicating his Jehovah's Witness status and refusing transfusion of blood products.
  4. A child of Jehovah's Witness parents for whom a specific issue order has been obtained.
  5. A child of Jehovah's Witness parents in an emergency.

28. The following may reduce intraoperative blood transfusion requirements:
  1. High starting packed cell volume.
  2. High percentage of hypochromatic red cells.
  3. . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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