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Hyperbaric oxygen therapy in the management of severe acute anaemia in a Jehovah's Witness
β Scribed by McLoughlin; Cope; Harrison
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 669 KB
- Volume
- 54
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0003-2409
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β¦ Synopsis
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 2.0βg.dl^β1^. 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.
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