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AnaesthesiaVolume 50, Issue 7 p. 583-585 Free Access No blood or blood products M. Cox, M. Cox Department of Anaesthesia Hammersmith Hospital London W12 OHSSearch for more papers by this authorJ. Lumley, J. Lumley Department of Anaesthesia Hammersmith Hospital London W12 OHSSearch for more papers by this author M. Cox, M. Cox Department of Anaesthesia Hammersmith Hospital London W12 OHSSearch for more papers by this authorJ. Lumley, J. Lumley Department of Anaesthesia Hammersmith Hospital London W12 OHSSearch for more papers by this author First published: July 1995 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2044.1995.tb15107.xCitations: 10AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL References 1 Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania. Jehovah's Witnesses In the Twentieth Century, 2nd edn. Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc., 1989. 2 Immovable for the right worship. The Watchtower 1945; 66: 195– 204. 3 Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania. How Can Blood Save Your Life? Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc., 1990. 4 Benson KT. The Jehovah's Witness patient: considerations for the anesthesiologist. Anesthesia and Analgesia 1989; 69: 647– 56. 5 Re T. All England Law Reports 1992; 4: 647– 70. 6 British Medical Association. Rights and Responsibilities of Doctors. British Medical Association, 1992. 7 Malette v Shulman et al. Dominion Law Reports (Canada) 1990; 67: 321– 39. 8 Brahams D. Jehovah's Witness transfused without consent: a Canadian case. Lancet 1989; 2: 1407– 8. 9 Gillick v West Norfolk and Wisbech AHA. All England Law Reports 1985; 3: 402– 37. 10 Gilmartin G. Jehovah's Witnesses. In. WE Scott, MD Vickers, H. Draper eds. Ethical Issues in Anaesthesia. Butterworth Heinman, 1994: 105– 13. 11 Tan YH. Blood transfusion ordered for child. The Independent 1993 June 9th: page 16, col. 4. 12 Kitchens CS. Are transfusions overrated? surgical outcome of Jehovah's Witnesses. The American Journal of Medicine 1993; 94: 117– 9. 13 Spence RK, Carson JA, Poses R., McCoy S., Pello M., Alexander J., Popovich J., Norcross E., Camishion RC. Elective surgery without transfusion: influence of preoperative hemoglobin level and blood loss on mortality. The American Journal of Surgery 1990; 159: 320– 4. 14 Lewis CTP, Murphy McCooley DA. Risk factors for cardiac operations in adult Jehovah's Witnesses. Annals of Thoracic Surgery 1991; 51: 448– 50. 15 Cane RD. Haemoglobin: how much is enough? Critical Care Medicine 1990; 18: 1046– 7. 16 Finfer S., Howell S., Miller J., Willet K., Wilson-Macdonald J. Major trauma in two patients refusing blood transfusion. British Medical Journal 1994; 308: 1423– 4. 17 Nelson CL, Bowen WS. Total hip arthroplasty in Jehovah's Witnesses without blood transfusion. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery 1986; 68: 350– 3. 18 Bonnet CA, Lapin R., Docuyanan GB. Total hip replacement under spinal anesthesia without transfusion. Orthopaedic Reviews 1987; 16: 43– 7. 19 Schaller RT, Shaller J., Morgan A., Furman EB. Hemodilution anaesthesia: a valuable aid to major cancer surgery in children. American Journal of Surgery 1983; 146: 79– 83. 20 Trouwborst A., Hagenouw RRPM, Jeekel J., Ong GL. Hypervolaemic haemodilution in an anaemic Jehovah's Witness. British Journal of Anaesthesia 1990; 64: 646– 8. 21 Rosthstein P., Roye D., Verdisco L., Stern L. Preoperative use of erythropoietin in an adolescent Jehovah's Witness. Anesthesiology 1990; 73: 568– 70. 22 Kraus P., Lipman J. Erythropoietin in a patient following multiple trauma. Anaesthesia 1992; 47: 962– 4. 23 Tremper KK, Friedman AE, Levine EM, Lapin R., Camarillo D. The preoperative treatment of severely anaemic patients with a perfluorochemical oxygen-transport fluid, Fluosol-DA. New England Journal of Medicine 1982; 307: 277– 83. Citing Literature Volume50, Issue7July 1995Pages 583-585 ReferencesRelatedInformation