Severe acute anaemia in a Jehovah's Witness
- 1 January 1987
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wiley in Anaesthesia
- Vol. 42 (1) , 44-48
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2044.1987.tb02943.x
Abstract
A case is described in which a Jehovah's Witness underwent emergency surgery following which her haemoglobin fell to 1.8 g/d litre. She was successfully treated in an intensive care unit with intermittent positive pressure ventilation of the lungs, high inspired oxygen concentrations and transfusions of large volumes of gelatin solution.Keywords
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