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Hyperbaric oxygen therapy in the management of severe acute anaemia in a Jehovah's Witness
Author(s) -
Peter McLoughlin,
Tristan Cope,
J. C. Harrison
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.839
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1365-2044
pISSN - 0003-2409
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2044.1999.01004.x
Subject(s) - medicine , erythropoietin , intensive care unit , blood transfusion , mechanical ventilation , oxygen therapy , intensive care medicine , anemia , hyperbaric oxygen , artificial ventilation , anesthesia , surgery , respiratory disease , lung
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.