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
Multiple Choice Questions
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- 27. A blood transfusion may lawfully be administered to:
- An adult Jehovah's Witness undergoing elective surgery if the anaesthetist feels it would be in the patient's best interests.
- An adult patient in an emergency whose Jehovah's Witness status is uncertain.
- An unconscious adult patient who is carrying an advance directive indicating his Jehovah's Witness status and refusing transfusion of blood products.
- A child of Jehovah's Witness parents for whom a specific issue order has been obtained.
- A child of Jehovah's Witness parents in an emergency.
- 28. The following may reduce intraoperative blood transfusion requirements:
- High starting packed cell volume.
- High percentage of hypochromatic red cells.
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- An adult Jehovah's Witness undergoing elective surgery if the anaesthetist feels it would be in the patient's best interests.