By the time Sage Bower was born in the early hours of Aug. 24, her mother, Sarah Bower, was already in a coma after experiencing a hemorrhagic stroke. “It was the scariest thing I had ever been through,” said Sarah’s husband, Nate Bower. “I thought I was losing her right there. I was yelling at [...]

Less blood is really more, transfusion critics say msnbc.com Report Long dominated by Jehovah’s Witnesses — whose faith forbids blood transfusions — bloodless surgeries and blood conservation programs are now attracting mainstream patients worried about what some experts say are clear risks, including more infections, longer recuperation, increased illness and even death. “The best blood [...]

Congressman Rothman Secures $4.69 Million in Funding for Englewood Hospital to Train Military Health Care Providers in Bloodless Medicine and Surgery Techniques ENGLEWOOD, N.J., Jan. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Congressman Steve Rothman (D-NJ) will be the featured speaker at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center today, 1:00-2:00 pm. Congressman Rothman will announce the latest batch of federal [...]

Puerto Rico—In a landmark decision reached on January 27, 2010, the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico upheld an adult patient’s right to refuse certain medical treatment. The Court also recognized a patient’s right to use advance directives and appoint a health-care agent to represent his interests when unconscious. Victor Hernandez, one of Jehovah’s Witnesses, executed [...]

Physicians around the world are now successfully treating patients with bloodless surgery. Evidence shows that many benefits are being realized by using alternative medicine. A recent study conducted at the Maritime Heart Center in Halifax, Nova Scotia showed that blood transfusions for stable cardiac-surgery patients increased their risk of death, renal failure, and sepsis or [...]

 CHEYENNE, Wyo. —  The state incorrectly withheld death benefits from the family of a Jehovah’s Witness who died from low blood pressure because it couldn’t prove that treatment refused by the family would’ve saved the man, the Wyoming Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.In the ruling written by Justice Michael Golden, the court found that the Wyoming Workers [...]

Producing a safe blood substitute to replace transfusions is fraught with problems, according to a report titled Blood Substitutes: Hemoglobin-Based Oxygen Carriers, written by Dr. Jerrold H. Levy of the Emory University School of Medicine and Emory Healthcare and released by the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH). The National Institutes of Health (NIH) [...]

DOCTORS and paramedics must withhold life-saving medical care if a patient has previously made a ”living will” that clearly states they do not want a specific treatment, such as kidney dialysis or a blood transfusion. A landmark NSW Supreme Court decision has upheld the right to refuse medical treatment, even if the decision was made [...]

Now some surgeons and anesthetists are questioning whether every patient shouldn’t get the same treatment. Over the past decade a number of studies have found that, far from saving lives, blood transfusions can actually harm many patients. The problem is not the much publicized risk of blood-borne infectious agents, such as HIV, but the blood [...]

It’s about a scientific article published in 2000. Auteur(s) / Author(s) HIRAKI T. (1) ; HAMADA N. (1) ; KANO T. (1) ; ISAMOTO Y. (2) Affiliation(s) du ou des auteurs / Author(s) Affiliation(s) (1) Department of Anesthesiology, Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume 830-0011, JAPON (2) Clinical Engineering Center, Kurume University School of Medicine, [...]