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Anaes SAQsEthics, consent & medicolegal

Anaes SAQs · Ethics, consent & medicolegal

The Jehovah's Witness patient and the blood refusal

Final SAQ — the autonomy and the binding refusal (the JW card); the respect and the transfusion-free technique (the cell salvage with the continuous loop, the ANH, the erythropoietin, the iron, the antifibrinolytics, the meticulous haemostasis, the MDT); the child's different rule; the documentation.

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Discuss the ethical and the anaesthetic management of the adult Jehovah's Witness patient who refuses the blood products, presenting for the major surgery with the bleeding risk.

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Discuss the ethical and the anaesthetic management of the adult Jehovah's Witness patient who refuses the blood products, presenting for the major surgery with the bleeding risk.

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  1. [2]Piekarski F, et al. Perioperative blood management in Jehovah's Witnesses. Die Anaesthesiologie, 2026.PMID 42081097
  2. [4]Rajewska A, et al. The Jehovah's Witness obstetric patient: a literature review. Anaesthesiol Intensive Ther, 2019.PMID 31893605
  3. [3]Bolcato M, et al. The clinical and medico-legal aspects of transfusion-free treatment. J Clin Med, 2025.PMID 40807065
  4. [42081098]Bersten AD, Soni N (eds) Oh's Intensive Care Manual. 8th edition, Elsevier, 2018.
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