ArticlePrzeglad gastroenterologiczny2015
Surgery in Jehovah's Witnesses - our experience.
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- Perforated jejunal diverticulitis in a Jehovah's Witness complicated by postoperative haemorrhage: a case report of successful bloodless management.Journal of surgical case reports · 2026Article
- "To be culturally competent is to be willing to learn about the differences and to acknowledge them"- a qualitative study on Polish medical students' attitudes towards cross-cultural competence development.BMC medical education · 2024Article
- Cultural competences among future nurses and midwives: a case of attitudes toward Jehovah's witnesses' stance on blood transfusion.BMC medical education · 2024Article
- Utilizing acute normovolemic hemodilution for blood conservation in myomectomy for Jehovah's Witnesses: A case report.SAGE open medical case reports · 2024Article
- Between Autonomy and Paternalism: Attitudes of Nursing Personnel Towards Jehovah's Witnesses' Refusal of Blood Transfusion.International journal of public health · 2023Article
- "Bloodless" Major Pulmonary Resection in Two Jehovah's Witnesses Patients with Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma.Journal of blood medicine · 2022Article
- Multi-disciplinary and shared decision-making approach in the management of organ-confined prostate cancer.Arab journal of urology · 2018Review
- Major abdominal surgery in Jehovah's Witnesses.Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England · 2016Review
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Abstract
introductionSurgeons face a special challenge in treating Jehovah's Witnesses who refuse blood transfusion.
aimTo present our surgical experience with this group of patients operated on in our department. MATERIAL AND
methodsA retrospective study of 16 unselected Jehovah's Witnesses patients was conducted between October 2004 and February 2012. We analysed gender, age, haemogram before and after surgery, types of surgery, postoperative complications and the need for blood transfusion, and/or other drugs stimulating erythrogenesis.
resultsEighty-one percent of patients were women; the average age of all patients was 57.3 years. Mean haemoglobin level, preoperative, postoperative, and on the day of discharge from hospital, was 12.5 g/dl, 9.7 g/dl, and 9.29 g/dl, respectively. Over the same time period, mean red blood cell count was 4.53 mln/µl, 3.58 mln/µl, and 3.37 mln/µl, respectively. Two out of 16 patients agreed to have blood transfusion. Drugs used for erythropoiesis stimulation included rEPO, ferrum, and folic acid. No surgical death was noted.
conclusionsWe found that abdominal surgery was safe in our small group of Jehovah's Witness patients. However, all Jehovah's Witness patients should be fully informed about the type of procedure and possible consequences of blood transfusion refusal. Two of our patients agreed to blood transfusion in the face of risk of death.
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