Review of abdominal solid organ transplantation in Jehovah’s Witness patients

Table 1 Acceptability of different products by Jehovah’s Witnesses

Generally not acceptable	May be acceptable	Generally acceptable
Red cells	Red cell substitutes	Crystalloids and colloids
	Haemoglobin (human, animal, or synthetic)
White cells	White cell substitutes	Recombinant erythropoietin
	Interferons or interleukins
Plasma	Plasma substitutes	Recombinant factor VIIa
	Albumin
	Immunoglobulins
	Cryoprecipitate
	Clotting factors
Platelets	Platelet substitutes	Artificial blood substitutes
	Platelet factor 4:
	Acute hypervolaemic haemodilution
	Intraoperative cell salvage1
	Cardiopulmonary bypass or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation1
	Renal dialysis1
	Plasmapheresis
	Epidural blood patch
	Transplants
	Topical biological haemostatic agents

¹Provided it is a closed circuit.