NoBlood! - The Bloodless Medicine and Surgery Network

NoBlood!'s team of participants is committed to advancing medical treatment that respects the patient's right to quality care and treatment without blood or blood-based products.
http://www.noblood.com

Bloodless Medicine and Surgery Institute (BMSI)

A private, educational institute founded in 1997 in Cleveland, Ohio by nationally recognized leaders in the bloodless field. Through our research, we continually develop new standards for applying bloodless medical techniques. Through our education effort
http://www.bmsi.net/

Medical Care and Blood

With good reason, many now ask, 'How safe are blood transfusions?' But this is more than a medical issue. It has made news involving Jehovah's Witnesses. Have you wondered why these ethical people, who believe in good medicine, refuse to accept blood?
http://www.watchtower.org/medical_care_and_blood.htm

International Society for Artificial Cells, Blood Substitutes & Immobilization Biotechnology (ISABI)

This group was formed in 1976 to encourage research, development and clinical applications in related areas.
http://www.artcell.mcgill.ca/ISABI.htm

International Study of Peri-Operative Transfusion (ISPOT) Investigators

A group of researchers from ten countries who are studying the use of technologies to minimize allogeneic blood transfusion (blood from volunteer donors) in patients undergoing elective surgery.
http://www.lri.ca/programs/ceu/ispot/default.htm

Bloodless Medicine Research

"Bloodless medicine" is a modern field of research which studies the available strategies for providing medical care without allogeneic transfusions. In most cases this is undertaken because of religious convictions, but not always.  Any technological im
http://www.med.unipi.it/patchir/bloodl/bmr.htm

Scientific American: Ask the Experts: Medicine

How do scientists make artificial blood? How effective is it compared with the real thing?
http://www.sciam.com/askexpert_question.cfm?articleID=0007ACC0-ACD3-1C71-9EB7809EC588F2D7