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Medical Care and Blood Medical Care and Blood: With good reason, many now ask, 'How safe are blood transfusions?' But this is more than a medical issue. It has made news involving Jehovah's Witnesses. Have you wondered why these ethical people, who believe in good medicine, refuse to accept blood? (Blood Products) http://www.watchtower.org/medical_care_and_blood.htm Bloodless Medicine and Surgery Institute (BMSI) Bloodless Medicine and Surgery Institute (BMSI): A private, educational institute founded in 1997 in Cleveland, Ohio by nationally recognized leaders in the bloodless field. Through our research, we continually develop new standards for applying bloodless medical techniques. Through our education effort (Blood Products) http://www.bmsi.net/ Scientific American: Ask the Experts: Medicine Scientific American: Ask the Experts: Medicine: How do scientists make artificial blood? How effective is it compared with the real thing? (Blood Products) http://www.sciam.com/askexpert_question.cfm?articleID=0007ACC0-ACD3-1C71-9EB7809EC588F2D7 Bloodless Medicine Research Bloodless Medicine Research: "Bloodless medicine" is a modern field of research which studies the available strategies for providing medical care without allogeneic transfusions. In most cases this is undertaken because of religious convictions, but not always.  Any techno (Blood Products) http://www.med.unipi.it/patchir/bloodl/bmr.htm International Society for Artificial Cells, Blood Substitutes & Immobilization Biotechnology (ISABI) International Society for Artificial Cells, Blood Substitutes & Immobilization Biotechnology (ISABI): This group was formed in 1976 to encourage research, development and clinical applications in related areas. (Blood Products) http://www.artcell.mcgill.ca/ISABI.htm Jehovah's Witnesses-The Surgical/Ethical Challenge Jehovah's Witnesses-The Surgical/Ethical Challenge: There are over half a million Jehovah's Witnesses in the United States who do not accept blood transfusions. The number of Witnesses and those associated with them is increasing. - Journal of the American Medical Association (Blood Products) http://www.watchtower.org/library/hb/jw_surgical_ethical.htm International Study of Peri-Operative Transfusion (ISPOT) Investigators International Study of Peri-Operative Transfusion (ISPOT) Investigators: A group of researchers from ten countries who are studying the use of technologies to minimize allogeneic blood transfusion (blood from volunteer donors) in patients undergoing elective surgery. (Blood Products) http://www.lri.ca/programs/ceu/ispot/default.htm NoBlood! - The Bloodless Medicine and Surgery Network NoBlood! - The Bloodless Medicine and Surgery Network: NoBlood!'s team of participants is committed to advancing medical treatment that respects the patient's right to quality care and treatment without blood or blood-based products. (Blood Products) http://www.noblood.com