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A 5 page research paper that explores the topic of bloodless surgery. Members of the Jehovah's Witness church are prohibited by their faith from having blood transfusions. Likewise, many people fear infection from blood transfusions. This has led to surgical techniques and strategies that allow for successful surgery without blood transfusions. The writer discusses how this practice is spreading. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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are JW congregations throughout the world and roughly 5,200,000 members globally, with 936,200 living in the US (Brown and Ijaduola, 2001). In 1945, after reading Leviticus 17:14, as well as
other passages in the Bible, JW leaders derived a philosophy that prohibits members of their church from having anything to do with blood transfusions or blood products (Brown and Ijaduola,
2001). However, JW members will still elect to have surgery if they can do so without receiving blood transfusions. In order to abide by the wishes of JW patients,
yet still offer these patients the best possible medical possible, surgical innovators in the late 1980s began devising methods for bloodless surgery. Today, around the world JW members have
aided in establishing 100 centers in which patients can undergo bloodless surgery, even for major operations (Minerva, 1996). Indications are that use of these procedures are beginning to spread to
non-JW patients. According to a report published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (1996, v154, pp. 517-60), this development is due to the concern among many patients due to possible
infection from HIV, as well as other viral infections, that might be contracted from blood transfusions (Minerva, 1996). The "basics" of bloodless surgery consist of, first of all, using
all available strategies and methodologies to minimize blood loss; salvage as much of the patients own blood as possible; and also treat the patient prior to surgery with pharmaceuticals that
will maximize blood production and enhance the bloods oxygen-carrying ability (Grogan, 1999). Bloodless surgery evolved due to advances in intra-operative blood-sparing techniques and blood-building drags, working in conjunction with intrinsic
compensatory mechanisms (Grogan, 1999). Surgeons were already using techniques for blood conservation, such as intraoperative autotransfusion, veno-veno bypass, cardiopulmonary bypass, and plateletpheresis (Grogan, 1999). These techniques were adapted to
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