Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 5, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Bit u Winnipeg free january 11 High tech surgery cuts need for blood Ottawa up More doctors Are using new techniques to reduce the need for blood transfusions Dur ing but there Are no alternatives to transfusions in severe cases of blood says an Ottawa thirteen lasers Stop an open artery from said Joel a surgeon at the Ottawa general Freeman was referring to Nathan a boy from who died new years eve after his it Bovais witness parents fused a blood transfusion on religious Nathan needed sur Gery to close a blood vessel that was punctured in a car a Jehovah witness group has suggested bloodless surgery operation without using blood trans have saved the Freeman called the groups claim when you have a vessel that has a Hole in All the technology in the world is not of much said what you need is to have o argon beam surgeons at the Ottawa general were the first in in to use this tool that controls bleeding Dur ing the coagulate is Pencil like probe uses a beam of Ottawa heart drains blood from the Chest through a filter into a sterile its plastic liner is removed and the blood is Hung up like an intravenous bag and returned to the were not being suicidal we believe in living and we want the Best care for our a patient who is stable enough to be anaesthetized so you can put a stitch in and that requires most surgery is relatively blood and Freeman said surgeons Are increasingly using new techniques to limit blood loss in complicated and that reduces the need for such techniques include electrical Energy and an inert to quickly limit blood loss during d Auto transfusion they Are a cheap and highly effective technique for recycling a patients the which is accepted by Jehovah wit Nesses and is now being used on cardiac patients at the University of holidays adults seniors children children under 5 free watch All the harness racing action in warm climate controlled Comfort Dine in our Beautiful Terrace 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yesterday it is step Ping up Security and giving passengers the option of cancelling their reservations after receiving a general threat against its transatlantic Delta spokesman Jim Lundy said the threat did not name a particular City or he would not say when the threat was received or give other sanctions to stay Washington president Bush extended sanctions against Libya under National emergency procedures yester saying the North african nation continues to use and support International terror in a letter to the leaders of the democratic controlled Senate and House of represent the Republican presi Dent said he is continuing the economic sanctions imposed by the president Ronald the sanctions would have expired without the executive order to extend boys scream fatal Lake a boy who playfully cried rape while wrestling with a Cousin in the Woods was shot to death by a Man who heard his police Simeon died from a gunshot wound to the Ernest Howard was charged with murder and jailed without Simeon was playing with Shay when the shooting occurred Tambo in Hospital Stockholm Oliver the South african Black nationalist Leader who lives in exile in arrived at a swedish clinic for treatment following a brain police said Leader of the african National Congress anti apartheid guerrilla group based in entered the Erst Gards clinic wednesday tumor starved Washington scientists studying a deadly form of can cer linked to aids say they have made Progress with an unusual form of treatment starving a tumor by depriving it of the statement yesterday came from a group of Massachusetts scientists working on a treatment for Kaposi Sar Church on Agenda Vatican City a High level Vatican delegation will travel to the soviet Union this month to discuss the status of the ukrainian Catholic Vatican radio reported the talks with officials of the russian orthodox Church had been scheduled for last november but were postponed because of tensions bet Weed orthodox and catholics in ;