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- Eosinophil count predicts mortality risk following heart procedure
- Lessons learned from transfusion refusal
- Obese achieve functional improvements after trauma rehab
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- Daily temperature linked to bipolar admissions
- Psychologic well-being reduced in schizophrenia patients
- Chest X-ray prevents excess antibiotic use in childhood pneumonia
- Eosinophil count predicts mortality risk following heart procedure
| Eosinophil count predicts mortality risk following heart procedure Posted: 09 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT Study findings suggest that eosinophil count predicts mortality risk in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention. |
| Lessons learned from transfusion refusal Posted: 09 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT Jehovah's Witness patients who refuse blood transfusions during cardiac surgery are not at risk for surgical complications or long-term mortality compared with non-Witnesses who receive transfusions, report US researchers. |
| Obese achieve functional improvements after trauma rehab Posted: 09 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT Obese patients participating in a rehabilitation program for orthopedic trauma can achieve meaningful functional independence before discharge, US research shows. |
| Abused children may become obese adults Posted: 09 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT Severity of abuse in childhood or adolescence is associated with an increased risk for overall and central obesity in adulthood, report researchers. |
| Biomarkers predict benefit of targeted therapy in metastatic renal-cell cancer Posted: 09 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT In metastatic renal-cell cancer, the level of cytokines and angiogenic factors identify those patients with an aggressive disease course who derive the greatest benefit from treatment with the molecular-targeted therapy pazopanib, a retrospective analysis of clinical trials shows. |
| Daily temperature linked to bipolar admissions Posted: 09 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT Results from a Taiwanese study suggest that high daily temperatures are associated with increased hospitalization rates for mood symptoms among patients with bipolar disorder, particularly women. |
| Psychologic well-being reduced in schizophrenia patients Posted: 09 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT Patients with schizophrenia have significantly lower psychologic well-being compared with mentally healthy individuals, say researchers. |
| Chest X-ray prevents excess antibiotic use in childhood pneumonia Posted: 09 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT Use of a chest X-ray as well as traditional clinical parameters to diagnose childhood pneumonia can prevent overdiagnosis and unnecessary use of antibiotics, say researchers. |
| Eosinophil count predicts mortality risk following heart procedure Posted: 09 Jul 2012 05:00 PM PDT Study findings suggest that eosinophil count predicts mortality risk in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention. |
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Jehovah's Witnesses blood transfusion confusion
ReplyDeleteIt is misleading to imply that there is NO RISK refusing blood transfusions which is how the Jehovah's Witnesses Watchtower will spin it.
It's only *elective surgery* for patients who are not in ER bleeding to death and in a modern hospital that has all the latest blood conservation gadgets.
How safe is all the thousands of pints of blood that Jehovah's Witnesses do use?
Jehovahs Witnesses take blood products now in 2012.
They take all fractions of blood.This includes hemoglobin, albumin, clotting factors, cryosupernatant and cryo-poor too, and many, many, others.
If one adds up all the blood fractions the JWs takes, it equals a whole unit of blood. Any, many of these fractions are made from thousands upon thousands of units of donated blood.
Jehovah’s Witnesses can take Bovine *cows blood* as long as it is euphemistically called synthetic Hemopure.
Jehovah's Witnesses now accept every fraction of blood except the membrane of the red blood cell. JWs now accept blood transfusions.
The fact that the JW blood issue is so unclear is downright dangerous in the emergency room.
More than 50,000 Jehovah's Witnesses dead from Watchtowers deadly arbitrary blood ban. That is 50 times more than died at Jonestown massacre,some estimates run as high as 100,000 dead
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Danny Haszard