Bloodless surgery is a surgical approach that avoids the transfusion of donor blood, developed in association with the orthopedic surgeon Adolf Lorenz, known as the bloodless surgeon of Vienna. The practice uses surgical and medical techniques to minimize blood loss and manage patients without donor blood, though patients may still receive their own blood or blood products, collected and returned during the procedure. Interest in bloodless surgery stems partly from the religious objections of groups such as Jehovah's Witnesses to blood transfusion, and partly from concerns about the transmission of bloodborne disease through donated blood.
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Do people who decline donor blood also refuse treatments that use their own blood?
An NHS Borders guideline on people who abstain from blood and blood products lists treatment and procedures involving their own (autologous) blood, including normovolaemic haemodilution and cell salvage, under treatment that Jehovah's Witnesses consider to be a matter of choice. It says there may be ways of performing these procedures that are acceptable to some and not to others.
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. His medical practice was a consequence of his severe allergy to carbolic acid routinely used in operating rooms of the era. His condition forced him to become a "dry surgeon". Contemporary usage of the term refers to both invasive and noninvasive medical techniques and protocol
In Group: Blood Transfusion and Blood Components, Introduction
Bloodless surgery is a non-invasive surgical method developed by orthopedic surgeon Adolf Lorenz, who was known as "the bloodless surgeon of Vienna".
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