Hyperbaric oxygen therapy in the management of severe acute anaemia in a Jehovah's witness.
A case is described in which a Jehovah's Witness patient who refused blood transfusion suffered massive antepartum haemorrhage, her haemoglobin falling as low as 2.0 g.dl(-1). She was treated on an intensive care unit with intermittent positive pressure ventilation and general supportive measures, pulsed hyperbaric oxygen therapy and recombinant human erythropoietin.
McLoughlin
P L
PL
Department of Anasthesia, University Hospital Aintree NHS Trust, Lower Lane, Liverpool L9 7AL, UK.
Cope
T M
TM
Harrison
J C
JC
D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D000740:Anemia / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D002835:Christianity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006931:Hyperbaric Oxygenation; D006473:Postpartum Hemorrhage / Q000150:complications*; D011247:Pregnancy