by TheWonderofYou 15 Replies latest watchtower medical
"...and now the device is being tested in England, primarily on religious patients"
With, of course, the help of the Hospital Liaison Committees. What a loving provision from Jehovah. How wise Jehovah has been to establish those helpful committees. Without the HLC...how would all those loyal followers of Jehovah get medical help?
Wasn't a JW involved in the development of the HemoPure mentioned in that article as an accepted product to use with Hemosep?
I had open heart surgery 2015 and they used some sort of blood salvage but I don't know what name it was.
EdenOne: Wasn't a JW involved in the development of the HemoPure mentioned in that article as an accepted product to use with Hemosep?
Are you talking about Hemopure, the bovine based artificial blood?
I have heard a few rumors and Chinese whispers online about JW involvement in the development of various "bloodless" technologies. But little confirmation. I wouldn't be surprised to find a lot of JWs tumble out of the patent office for various bloodless technologies and products.
Heck...if you go back far enough, you will find old Wm. Hudgings in the patent office - for an "asshole flusher". Haha! He invented that device right around the time that the Golden Age was printing all those articles about colon cleansing and hemorrhoids.
JWs involved in the development of bloodless technology? Absolutely believable.
I'm just learning the basics and make a clue of it. Hemosep is a blood management procedure.
Hemosep is a device that successfully broke in the market of blood salvage
- BLOOD SALVAGE/CELL SALVAGE TOP
- Blood and tissue that enters the surgical field or wound is collected, separated, cleaned, and the red cells are returned to the patient.
- Post-operatively: Before the surgery is completed, a drain is inserted to salvage blood from the surgical site. In the patient's room, the blood continuing to drain from the surgical site can be filtered and returned to the patient.
Hemopur however was the brandname of an abortive attempt to produce a hemodilution from animal blood. Hemodilution is also a blood-management-procedure.
- HEMODILUTION (ACUTE NORMOVOLEMIC HEMODILUTION, ANH) TOP
- A predetermined amount of whole blood (calculated prior to surgery, based on expected blood loss and the patient's data) is withdrawn from the patient at the beginning of surgery and held in a reservoir in the operating room; can be kept constantly connected to the patient if required. The volume drawn off for reserve is replaced with a substitute, non-blood solution so that any blood loss during the surgery is reduced due to the dilution.
- The reserved blood may be used to supplement the patient's blood volume during the procedure as needed or returned to the patient at the end of the surgery as the substitute solution is eliminated
- The reserved blood must be returned within 8 hours or be discarded.
This information is from a Blood Manaagement Glossary
http://www.swedish.org/services/blood-management/glossary#axzz2SYXWdVzD
included is this Bloodless Program Enrollment and Advanced directive e.g.
They make it very easy.
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A woman in Australia received Hemopur HBOC-201 from Biopure Corp., 2008 * HBOC (Hemoglobin-based oxygen carriers)
This product developped for J.W. did not have Jehovahs blessing. After it lost Jehovahs blessing the company went in bankrupcty. But the new device Hemopur has Jehovahs blessing.
Wonder: I'm just learning the basics and make a clue of it. Hemosep is a blood management procedure.
Hemosep is a device that recently and successfully broke in the market of blood salvage.
Hemosep seems to have taken over a market share from Haemonetics with this machine. Haemonetics has been one of the largest supplier of blood management technologies to this point - they developed one of the first cell savers back in the early 70s.
Hemosep boasts that it is small, easy to transport and use. It is also cost effective making it attractive to places like the Canadian market whose health care system is bolstered with public funds.
However, it also has drawbacks. It can only process one litre of blood at a time*, making it a questionable device for trauma emergencies where a patient loses much more than a litre of blood when they hemorrhage. (*basically, what a Hemosep machine does, is it takes a person's blood and concentrates it and then that concentrated blood is transfused back into the patient. The patient gets all the 'goodies' from their blood without the volume - the volume has already been added to the patient's system with synthetic volume expanders)
At this point, as far as I know, the Hemosep machine has been approved by Health Canada for use in cardiac surgeries and for "other situations". In other words....they will use if for JWs who have no other option than to use the machine for "off-label" use - to try to save their lives when conventional transfusion have been taken off the table as a line of treatment.
I guess time will tell if the Hemosep machine has any safety issues yet to be worked out. It is performing fairly well so far from all indications. But it is a fairly new device that is still, as far as I can tell, in testing stages, especially for procedures other than open heart surgery.
