Extensive cytoreductive surgery in a Jehovah’s Witness patient A case report

Abstract

Jehovah’s Witnesses are a well-known patient demographic in medicine because of their religious-based refusal of blood transfusion. This case report outlines the treatment of a Jehovah’s Witness patient in need of an extensive cytoreductive surgery due to a peritoneal carcinomatosis of ovarian origin. The surgeons carried out all the recommended surgical and anaesthetic measures concluding that extensive cytoreductive surgery on a Jehovah’s Witness is possible and that a complete cytoreduction can be safely performed.