Dr. Spahn: We often treat university professors ad their families without using blood. Even the surgeons request that we avoid transfusions! One surgeon, for example, came to about his wife, who needed an operation. He said: "Just make sure of one thing-that she does not get a blood transfusion!"
Dr. Shander: Members of my anesthesia department said: 'These patients who are not getting blood are doing just as well and maybe even better. Why do we have two standards of care? If this is the best care, we should apply it to everybody.' So now we are looking for bloodless medicine to become the standard of care.
Mr. Earnshaw: It just so happens that bloodless surgery is particularly relevant to Jehovah's Witnesses. However, this is how we want to treat everybody.
Is the bloodless approach more expensive or less expensive?
Mr. Earnshaw: This is cost saving.
Dr. Shander: There is a 25-percent reduction of cost with bloodless medicine.
Dr. Boyd: If only for that reason, we should use it.
How far have we advanced in the use of bloodless medical management?
Dr. Boyd: I think it's very progressive. It's by no means at an end. Each time we turn around we find some good new reason not to use blood.
Next time: The Growing Demand for Bloodless Medicine and Surgery - The Patient's Role
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