Treatment of life-threatening post-haemorrhagic anaemia with cell-free haemoglobin solution in an adolescent Jehovah’s Witness.
This case report describes the successful use of a purified human cell-free hemoglobin solution (Hemolink(R)) in combination with erythropoietin, iron, vitamin B12 and folic acid in the management of profound […]
New approach to management of life-threatening bleeding in a Jehovah’s Witness.
This is an editorial on an article we commented previously (Gannon et al. Crit Care Med 2002;30:1893-5). The author reviews a number of interesting points on rHuEPO and oxygen therapeutics. […]
The use of recombinant factor VIIa in a Jehovah’s Witness with auto-immune thrombocytopenia and post-splenectomy haemorrhage.
Management of bleeding in patients who refuse blood transfusion may prove to be a therapeutic challenge, and therefore blood sparing modes of therapy need to be considered. In severe surgical […]