Why "bloodless medicine" and how should we do it?

Transfusion

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 550-551

  Kickler, Thomas S ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT RIGHT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RELIGION;

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HUMANS;

EID: 0037407281     PISSN: 00411132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1537-2995.2003.00404.x     Document Type: Editorial

References (3)

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2. Ridley DT. Informed consent, informed refusal, informed choice - what is it that makes a patient's medical treatment decisions informed? Med Law 2001;20:205-14.
3. Ridley DT. Jehovah's Witnesses' refusal of blood: obedience to scripture and religious conscience. J Med Ethics 1999;25:469-72.