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The faith of Jehovah's Witnesses forbids blood transfusion. Courts in the United States have consistently upheld the right of competent adults to decline blood transfusion even when it would be life-saving, though there have been exceptions where the death of a patient could leave a child orphaned. [55]: 255
Young adults also showed a willingness to accept blood transfusions. [50] In another study, Jehovah's Witness patients presented for labor and delivery showed a willingness to accept some form of blood or blood products. Of these patients, 10 percent accepted whole blood transfusion. [51]
R v Blaue (1975) 61 Cr App R 271 is an English criminal law appeal in which the Court of Appeal decided, being a court of binding precedent thus established, that the refusal of a Jehovah's Witness to accept a blood transfusion after being stabbed did not constitute an intervening act for the purposes of legal causation.
Controversy has stemmed, however, from what critics state are inconsistencies in Witness policies on blood, claims that Witness patients are coerced into refusing blood and that Watch Tower literature distorts facts about transfusions and fails to provide information that would allow Witnesses to make an informed decision on the issue.
Instead of receiving treatment, Peterson was recruited for staff duties. He was ordered to help restrain other patients during electroshock therapy. “Either you are the shocker or the shockee,” the orderlies told him. Patients were forced to strip naked before bed and to leave their clothes in a pile outside the dormitory.
a warrant must have been issued ordering the taking of a blood sample, or; the patient must give his or her consent. [1] [3] [4] She cited to that effect the specific hospital policy, on which the police department had agreed, that would not permit her to provide the blood sample. [5] Payne, however, insisted he had implied consent to obtain ...
Patients with DNR are less likely to get medically appropriate care for a wide range of issues such as blood transfusions, cardiac catheterizations, cardiac bypass, operations for surgical complication, [37] blood cultures, central line placement, [38] antibiotics and diagnostic tests. [39] "Providers intentionally apply DNR orders broadly ...
Blood substitutes which do carry oxygen, such as PolyHeme, are also under development. [contradictory] Many doctors view acute normovolemic hemodilution, a form of storage of a patient's own blood, as a pillar of "bloodless surgery" but the technique is not an option for patients who refuse autologous blood transfusions.