Table 3.

Variability in blood products and procedure acceptance among Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Not Acceptable	May Be Acceptable
Blood, blood components, and blood fractions
Whole blood	Recombinant products such as G-CSF and EPO
Red cells	Albumin
White cells	Clotting factors
Platelets	Colony-stimulating factors
FFP	Cryoprecipitate
Autologous predonation	Hemoglobin-based oxygen carriers
	Fibrinogen/fibrin
	Immunoglobulins
	Interferon/interleukin
	Thrombin/prothrombin
	Rh factor
	Sealants
Therapeutic procedures involving patient’s own blood
Autologous predonation and reinfusion	Cell salvage
	ANH/hemodilution
	Extracorporeal blood recirculation
	Hemodialysis
	Blood patch
	Apheresis/plasmapheresis
	Platelet gel-autologous
	Cell labeling or tagging

EPO, erythropoietin; GCSF, granulocyte colony-stimulating factor.