Patient Blood Management Case Reports

Case Report No. 2: Patient Blood Management in a Jehovah's Witness trauma patient

Colleen Cuca, Victoria Ellerbroek, Patrick Meybohm


ISBN: 978-3-95764-171-7
1st edition 2015, Altenau (Germany)
© 2015 Hallenberger Media GmbH

The Patient Blood Management Case Report Series is published by Patrick Meybohm, MD MHBA and Kai Zacharowski, MD PhD FRCA.
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Abstract

Patients involved in major trauma frequently suffer from severe blood loss and anemia, which can be challenging to treat. Additional issues are presented in the population of Jehovah’s Witness patients, who refuse transfusions of allogenic blood or its components. We established a stable hemodynamic status in a young Jehovah’s Witness patient with major trauma by applying principles of patient blood management.