Hyperbaric oxygen therapy combined with erythropoietin and supportive care can be utilized in the management of severe acute anaemia when blood transfusion is refused.
May support adjunctive hyperbaric oxygen plus erythropoietin in transfusion-refusing severe anemia; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation.
A case is described in which a Jehovah's Witness patient who refused blood transfusion suffered massive antepartum haemorrhage, her haemoglobin falling as low as 2.0 g.dl(-1). She was treated on an intensive care unit with intermittent positive pressure ventilation and general supportive measures, pulsed hyperbaric oxygen therapy and recombinant human erythropoietin.
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