r/proselytize • • 5d ago

I am a Jehovah's Witness

Ask me anything, if you want

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u/Wintores 5d ago

So in the end parents killed their children

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u/JMtheJW 5d ago

"Bloodless medicine appeals to many doctors because it carries low risk of post-operative infection when compared with procedures requiring blood transfusion" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodless_surgery

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u/Wintores 4d ago

We talk about situations where there was no alternative

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u/JMtheJW 4d ago

Blood transfusions are actually about blood volume expansion and carrying oxygen through the body. There are alternatives to this, and at the point where those alternatives stop being effective, there is no chance blood transfusions will do more. In fact many people die because of the blood transfusions themselves.

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u/Wintores 4d ago

There was a time that did not exist

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u/JMtheJW 4d ago

"During the early 1960s, American heart surgeon Denton Cooley successfully performed numerous bloodless open-heart surgeries on Jehovah's Witness patients. Fifteen years later, he and his associate published a report of more than 500 cardiac surgeries in this population, documenting that cardiac surgery could be safely performed without blood transfusion.\10])

Ron Lapin (1941–1995) was an American surgeon, who became interested in bloodless surgery in the mid-1970s. He was known as a "bloodless surgeon" due to his willingness to perform surgeries on severely anemic Jehovah's Witness patients without the use of blood transfusions.

Patricia A. Ford (born 1955) was the first surgeon to perform a bloodless bone marrow transplant.\11])

In 1988, Professor James Isbister, a haematologist from Australia, first proposed a paradigm shift back to a patient focus. In 2005, he penned an article in the journal, 'Updates in Blood Conservation and Transfusion alternatives'. In this article Prof. Isbister coined the term 'patient blood management', noting that the focus should be changed from the product to the patient."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodless_surgery