November 20, 1979 – “A
spokesman for the University of Minnesota Hospital announced on [this date],
that one of its doctors, Dr. Robert Anderson, had been the first in the country
to give a patient a transfusion of artificial blood. The patient suffered a
severe loss of blood after having undergone surgery for vascular disease. As a
Jehovah's Witness, he refused on religious grounds to receive a transfusion of
real blood, so the doctor injected a milky blood substitute called Fluosol,
which was developed and tested in Japan.”
http://www.trivia-library.com/c/first-artificial-blood-transfusion-in-the-united-states.htm
http://www.trivia-library.com/c/first-artificial-blood-transfusion-in-the-united-states.htm
Transfusion confusion.
ReplyDeleteJehovah's Witnesses doctrine allows a liver transplant but not the blood that is in it.
Jehovahs Witnesses DO 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 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,some estimates run as high as 100,000 dead
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Danny Haszard ajwrb(dot)org
JW blood reform site