Anesthesia for a Jehovah’s Witness with Critical Anemia from Ruptured Stomach GIST

Authors

  • Kasana Raksamani Department of Anesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University
  • Orawan Pongraweewan Department of Anesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University
  • Sukunya Jirachaipitak Department of Anesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University

Keywords:

Jehovah’s Witness, peri-operative, blood conservation

Abstract

We report a case of a female Jehovah’s Witness admitted to the hospital with concealed rupture of stomach gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) and scheduled for exploratory laparotomy with tumor removal. She was critically anemic and refused to receive all kinds of blood or blood products. We present anesthesia techniques to avoid blood transfusion in this patient, which include deliberate hypotension and acute normovolemic hemodilution.

Downloads

Published

31-07-2020

How to Cite

Raksamani, K. ., Pongraweewan, O. ., & Jirachaipitak, S. (2020). Anesthesia for a Jehovah’s Witness with Critical Anemia from Ruptured Stomach GIST. Siriraj Medical Journal, 62(5), 215–216. Retrieved from https://he02.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/sirirajmedj/article/view/243932

Issue

Vol. 62 No. 5 (2010): Sep-Oct

Section

Case Report

License

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following conditions:

Copyright Transfer

In submitting a manuscript, the authors acknowledge that the work will become the copyrighted property of Siriraj Medical Journal upon publication.

License

 Articles are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This license allows for the sharing of the work for non-commercial purposes with proper attribution to the authors and the journal. However, it does not permit modifications or the creation of derivative works.

Sharing and Access

Authors are encouraged to share their article on their personal or institutional websites and through other non-commercial platforms. Doing so can increase readership and citations.