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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.
Thus was born his practice dedicated to providing bloodless surgery for Jehovah's Witness patients from around the world. He founded several bloodless surgery centers in Southern California, including hospitals in Norwalk, Bellflower, and Fountain Valley, and became a tireless advocate of non-blood medical management.
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.
Walgreens is pulling the plug on 1,200 stores over the next three years. That's no small cut. And they're not the only ones feeling the squeeze. Business Insider reported that CVS and Rite Aid are ...
A Columbus Walgreens permanently shut down in April, according to Yahoo, on the heels of a store closure in West Dayton back in March, per the Dayton Daily News. Walgreens joins Rite Aid, CVS in ...
Patient Blood Management is an approach that can be implemented in hospital settings for taking care of people who require blood transfusions. [4] PBM includes techniques that may help ensure each person receiving a blood transfusion receives optimal treatment for their condition and also ensures that the blood supply (bank of donated blood) is maintained to ensure that all people who require ...
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 ...
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