RT Journal
A1 Ferraris VA
T1 Severe blood conservation: Comment on “outcome of patients who refuse transfusion after cardiac surgery”
JF Archives of Internal Medicine
JO Archives of Internal Medicine
YR 2012
FD August 13
VO 172
IS 15
SP 1160
OP 1161
DO 10.1001/archinternmed.2012.2458
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2012.2458
AB 
Witnesses believe that the Bible prohibits ingesting blood and that Christians should therefore not accept blood transfusions or donate or store their own blood for transfusion.2 Members of the religion who voluntarily accept a transfusion are regarded as having disassociated themselves from the religion by abandoning its doctrines and are subsequently shunned by members of the organization.