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"A thorough, up-to-date, and well-written
account of transfusion risks, benefits and alternatives
that should be required reading for both health care practitioner
and patient alike."
-- Richard K. Spence MD
Former Chief of Surgery, Staten Island
University Hospital, New York. Director of
Surgical Education for the Baptist Health
Systems Hospitals, Alabama, USA.
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"Treating patients without blood,
so-called Bloodless Medicine and Surgery, is a contribution
to medicine that will propel us into the new millennium.
This book is a comparable contribution to Bloodless Medicine
and Surgery. Farmer and Webb exhausted the current resources
available and provided the reader with the most intelligible,
comprehensive and interesting reading on the topic of
Bloodless Medicine and Surgery. I salute them for a job
well done."
-- Aryeh Shander MD
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology,
Mt Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA.
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Your Choice is most certainly a timely and worthwhile publication.
It fulfills a significant role in bringing awareness about
'transfusion-free' surgery and medical care to physicians
as well as the general public. People are interested to
know that open-heart surgery and other operations are being
done successfully without blood transfusion. The book brings
to a focus the tremendous progress in this field and the
great potential for the future."
-- Dr Manuel R. Estioko,
Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeon
Medical Director of the Transfusion-Free
Medicine and Surgery Center,
Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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welcome to see a publication directed at a wider audience
than the usual work presented to surgeons and anesthesiologists.
This book is well researched and sets out the problems and
solutions from a number of perspectives. This is a welcome
edition, and would be valuable for both readers in the medical
field and also interested members of the lay public."
-- Peter Earnshaw. FRCS FRCSC
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon,
Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals,
London, United Kingdom.
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"In the authors' own words, this
book was written for the lay person. It is far more than
that. It is also for the medical practitioner. However,
its impact will be even greater. It is the beginning of
a new, far more evidence-based perspective on the use
of blood and its analogues."
-- Dr Vladimir Martyn
Anesthesiologist, Fremantle Kaleeya Hospital
Centre for Bloodless Medicine and Surgery
Perth, Western Australia.
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"This book is recommended particularly
for the family/community physician who has to advise his
patients during these changing times, and for all those
who may be required to provide an informed consent on
blood and its products. It should be compulsory reading
for medical students and junior specialist trainees."
-- Dr James Kong
Consultant Surgeon, Department of Surgery
Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital
Hong Kong.
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"This up-to-date monograph details
the problems associated with the use of blood transfusions,
such as viral transmission and reduced immunity, and the
reasons the community is requesting alternative approaches.
The authors have presented the wide range of bloodless
surgery methods available to patients who require elective
surgery. The authors have encapsulated all aspects of
bloodless surgery and presented them in a way that is
readable to patients and doctors."
-- Dr Wendy Eber
Clinical Director of Haematology,
The Western Australian Centre for
Pathology and Medical Research,
Perth, Australia.
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