Epidural blood patch- Blood is injected in to the membrane of spinal cord to seal a puncture. { } { } { }
Plasmaphersis- Blood removed to filter Plasma. Plasma substitute added, Blood is returned to patient. Using other patients blood is un-acceptable to christians. { } { ] { }
Labelling or Tagging - Some blood withdrawn mixed with medicine return to body.
This is a total farce. Whatever happened to the command to pour blood onto the ground.
Jeffreywhat, your comments highlight how the WTS is managing to corruptly skirt the issue. Now that full blood is less regularly transfused, and the WTS has hypocritically started to allow virtually any variety of blood component transfusion - provided it has been extracted and manipulated - it is hoping to avoid further deaths and avert legal problems. This does not make the current stand any less illogical, but it does mean following generations of JWs will never realise what a big deal and how many lives were lost over this issue in the past.
Of course more people have died from blood transfustions than from avoiding them. That is because millions of people have blood transfusions each year, and a far smaller amount avoid them.