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Although Lapin's early advocacy of bloodless surgery was viewed as radical at the time, the outbreak of blood-borne AIDS infections helped the cause, and throughout the world today many hospitals gladly accept Jehovah's Witness patients who have low hemoglobin counts for a full array of procedures. Thanks in part to his efforts, surgeons ...
Ron Lapin (1941–1995) was an American surgeon, who became interested in bloodless surgery in the mid-1970s. He was known as a "bloodless surgeon" due to his willingness to perform surgeries on severely anemic Jehovah's Witness patients without the use of blood transfusions.
Intraoperative blood salvage (IOS), also known as cell salvage, is a specific type of autologous blood transfusion. Specifically IOS is a medical procedure involving recovering blood lost during surgery and re-infusing it into the patient. It is a major form of autotransfusion.
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Patricia Ann Locantore-Ford (born September 27, 1955), also known as Dr. Patricia Ford, is an American physician, oncologist, hematologist and Director for the Center of Bloodless Medicine at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia. [1] She is widely considered the pioneer for bloodless surgery and medicine. In 1995, she performed the first ...
The 85-year-old ESPN college basketball analyst announced Thursday on social media that he got the news after a morning scan. Vitale had surgery in the summer to remove cancerous lymph nodes from ...
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