{"id":300,"date":"2010-09-03T19:24:34","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T19:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/2010\/09\/03\/jehovahs-witnesses-lead-the-way-in-bloodless-cardiac-surgery-2\/"},"modified":"2010-09-03T19:24:34","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T19:24:34","slug":"jehovahs-witnesses-lead-the-way-in-bloodless-cardiac-surgery-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/jehovahs-witnesses-lead-the-way-in-bloodless-cardiac-surgery-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses lead the way in bloodless cardiac surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Cardiac surgery is one of the most common reasons for requiring blood transfusion, but Australian surgeons treating Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses have shown that \u2018bloodless surgery\u2019 can be safe and effective.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Surgeons at the Prince Charles Hospital in Brisbane have reviewed the treatment of \u00a049 Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses who refused blood products because of their religious beliefs and found that they had similar outcomes after cardiac surgery to other patients who had CABG or cardiac valve surgery.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Writing in the journal Heart, Lung and Circulation (online 1 September), Dr Balu Bhaskar and colleagues say the use of blood conservation techniques ensures that patients who refused blood had the same operative mortality, post-operative outcomes and rates of ICU stay.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">They say that in usual practice between 30-90% of patients undergoing cardiac bypass surgery will require blood transfusion, but this was avoided in Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses by the use of \u2018blood sparing protocols\u2019, which included peri-operative blood conservation, the sue of haemostatic and haemopoietic drugs, reinfusion of shed blood and fastidious surgical techniques.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cProgressive advances in perfusion technology and peri-operative supportive management have made it possible for members of the Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses religious group to undergo open cardiac operations with remarkable safety,\u201d they conclude.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">They go further and say that the protocols for bloodless surgery should not be limited to Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses \u201cbut should form an integral part of everyday surgical practice\u201d as more evidence emerges of the adverse effects of liberal usage of blood products such as \u00a0the risk of allergic reactions and transmission of diseases such as hepatitis C.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\u2014-<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Originally published in 6minutes, a daily electronic PDF newsletter for Australian doctors, published by Reed Business Information.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardiac surgery is one of the most common reasons for requiring blood transfusion, but Australian surgeons treating Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses have shown that \u2018bloodless surgery\u2019 can be safe and effective. Surgeons at the Prince Charles Hospital&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}