June 27, 2019/ Italy - Doctors at Two Major Medical Conferences in Italy Show Interest in Transfusion -Alternative Strategies

 Many doctors have expressed appreciation for the worldwide network that our organization has established to provide information about medical and surgical treatment strategies to  avoid transfusion.  Hospital Information Services  (Italy), located at the branch office of Jehovah's Witnesses in Rome, is part of this worldwide network.  Late last year, representatives of Hospital Information Services (Italy) and local Hospital Liaison Committee members staffed an information booth at the National Congress of Italian Society of Anesthesia, Analgesia, Resuscitation, and Intensive Care (SIAARTI), which was held from October 10 to 13, 20 Palermo, Sicily.  Immediately after that conference, the brothers were also exhibitors at the joint Congress of the Scientific Societies of Surgery hosted at the Rome  "La Nuvola" Convention  Center.

Such conferences are opportunities to provide up-to-date information related to bloodless  medicine to many interested  medical professionals in at one time.  The conference in Palermo was attended  by 2, 800 anesthesiologists.  The conference in Rome, considered the largest surgical conference ever held in Italy, was attended  by 3,500 surgeons.   Representatives from a variety of respected  medical institutions  also attended.  This included members from all of the Italian association of surgeons and from the Italy Chapter of the American College of  Surgeons.  Several national institutions, such as the Ministry of Health, backed the event. 

Anesthesiologist Vincenzo Scuderi, from the Policlinico Hospital of Catania in Sicily, visited our booth at the Palermo event .  On January 18m 2019, he performed emergency treatment on a Witness patient affected  by aortic dissection.  He was able to complete the highly complex procedure without using blood.  Dr. Scuderi explains:  "[Your booth] at the SIAARTI 2018 Congress was instrumental. The presentation kit was of great assistance

Currently, over 5,000 doctors in Italy have agreed to treat patients who are Jehovah's Witnesses with safe and effective medical and surgical techniques that do not require the use of blood transfusions.  Every year in Italy, an average of 16,000 Witness patients are treated in this way. 

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