LibGuides: Multidisciplinary Patient Care: Bloodless Medicine

Contact Information

BLOODLESS CARE CENTER & PATIENT BLOOD MANAGEMENT

VBMC: Dawn Watson, RN
Phone: (845) 483-6385
Email: dawn.watson@nuvancehealth.org
Dawn can also be reached via Tiger Text

PUTNAM: Mindy Jackson, RN, CCM
Office: 845-230-4777 (x4777) or Vocera (M-F day shift hours).

Urgent after-hours matters: Contact the Nursing Supervisor

Web-Based Resources

Bloodless Medicine resources from JW.org
How Jehovah's Witnesses Are Changing Medicine
The New Yorker - Part I of 3
Should Anyone Be Given A Blood Transfusion?
The New Yorker - Part 2 of 3
The Ethics of Bloodless Medicine
The New Yorker - Part 3 of 3

Articles

Risk-adjusted clinical outcomes in patients enrolled in a bloodless program
Transfusion 2014

Bloodless medicine: current strategies and emerging treatment paradigms
Transfusion 2016
Jehovah's Witnesses and cardiac surgery: a single institution's experience
Transfusion 2014
Cardiovascular surgery in Jehovah's Witness patients: The role of preoperative optimization
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2015
The contemporary approach to the care of Jehovah's witnesses
J Trauma 2008

E-Books

Alternatives to Blood Transfusion in Transfusion Medicine by Alice Maniatis (Editor); Jean-François Hardy (Editor); Phillipe van der Linden (Editor)
ISBN: 9781405163217
Publication Date: 2010-11-08

Bloodless Medicine: What to Do When You Can't Transfuse
Hematology, 2014 - book chapter
American Society of Hematology