Redo Triple Coronary Artery Bypass Graft on a Jehovah’s Witness Patient: A 'Tailored' Approach
| Autor: | K. Rampersad, G. Angelini, A. Rampersad, R. Roopchan, H. Hanoman, J. Teodori, G. Teodori |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
lcsh:Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine Tailored approach business.industry lcsh:RC955-962 Jehovah s witness humanities Surgery lcsh:Infectious and parasitic diseases Jehovah’s Witness medicine.anatomical_structure Trinidad and Tobago coronary artery bypass graft Medicine lcsh:RC109-216 business Blood transfusions Artery |
| Zdroj: | WIMJ Open, Vol 1, Iss 1, Pp 9-10 (2014) |
| ISSN: | 0799-3889 |
| Popis: | Jehovah’s Witnesses are considered unusual patients because of their refusal to receive blood transfusions. Some practitioners do not consider the increased risk of death associated with refusal of blood transfusions as a sufficient deterrent. This religious conviction raises problems in the field of ethics and legal and medical management of patients for major surgical procedures in which the use of blood transfusions is an important element. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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