steve2: By contrast, with elective surgery or surgery that can be planned ahead of time, alternatives to blood transfusions may well be available. Of note, JW organization has most to say about elective surgery, very little, if anything, to say about refusing blood following massive blood volume loss.
The WT doesn't tell the JWs that not everyone is eligible for alternatives to blood transfusions. Alternative treatment is not suitable for many patients. You have to have a certain level of health and age to undergo bloodless treatment.
That is one of the reasons that the many retrospective studies that have been done that compare no-blood to blood are misleading. Those who can have bloodless treatment are generally in better health than those who get blood. As well, those studies fail to take into consideration that elective bloodless surgery is often a two stage process. The studies only take into consideration the first bloodless surgery and not the second one that the patient has to complete the procedure.