Blood Conservation Strategy during Cardiac Valve Surgery in Jehovah’s Witnesses: a Comparative Study with Non-Jehovah’s Witnesses
Background: We compared the clinical outcomes of cardiac valve surgery in adult Jehovah’s Witness patients refusing blood transfusion to those in non-Jehovah’s Witness patients without any transfusion limitations. Methods: From 2005 to 2014, 25 Jehovah’s Witnesses (JW group) underwent cardiac valve...
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| Language: | English |
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Korean Society of Critical Care Medicine
2016-05-01
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| Series: | Korean Journal of Critical Care Medicine |
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| Online Access: | http://www.kjccm.org/upload/pdf/kjccm-2016-31-2-101.pdf |