Hyperbaric oxygen therapy in the management of severe acute anaemia in a Jehovah's witness.
case_report · Level V
Where this comes from
- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 10460565.
- No licence information is recorded for this record.
- Because redistribution is not established, this page shows the abstract only. Follow the links below for the full text.
Abstract
A case is described in which a Jehovah's Witness patient who refused blood transfusion suffered massive antepartum haemorrhage, her haemoglobin falling as low as 2.0 g.dl(-1). She was treated on an intensive care unit with intermittent positive pressure ventilation and general supportive measures, pulsed hyperbaric oxygen therapy and recombinant human erythropoietin.
Medical subject headings
- Anemia
- Christianity
- Hyperbaric Oxygenation
- Postpartum Hemorrhage