| Anesthetic Experience of Low Hemoglobin Level Patients due to Refusal of Blood Transfusion. |
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Sook Hee Moon, soon Jum Kim, Kyung sook Park, Young Chul Park, Chun Ill Gil, Jung soon Shin |
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Department of Anesthesiology, College of Medicine, Korea University, Seoul, Korea. |
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Jehovah's Witness patients who require an operation represent a challenge to the physician because of the patients' refusal to accept a blood transfusion. We report 5 years experience with a consecutive series of 12 Jehovah's Witness patients in the Obstetric & Gynecological department who underwent operation. In 12 cases, death ensued in one patient who underwent subtotal hysterectomy for ectopic pregnancy. The cause of death was severe anemia & complicated respiratory problems. We discussed the problem of elective & emergency operations on Jehovah's Witness patients. Anesthesiologists must understand legal aspects, as well as and ethical, if they are to conduct their practice as an art as well as science. |
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