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A child with a ruptured spleen from a bicycle accident is quickly deteriorating. His mother, a Jehovah’s witness, refuses to allow a blood transfusion needed to save his life. What is the appropriate way to proceed?

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the appropriate way to proceed is to try giving medications that could be used instead of blood transfusions
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