How do you have bloodless healthcare professionals? What do you do, drain
them on a daily basis?

Jeff

Well good for you, Vorlon! It's high time Wiki includes information on clean
bloodless surgery and medical care found at http://www.noblood.org/ !

Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 13:13:20 -0700

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Join us at our Community portal where we are collaborating together to
build a comprehensive blood conservation and avoidance knowledge base!
We have chosen to build this using the same platform used by Wikipedia.

Wikipedia is a Web-based, free-content encyclopedia written
collaboratively by volunteers. It has editions in roughly 200 different
languages and contains entries both on traditional encyclopedic topics
and on almanac, gazetteer, and current events topics. Its purpose is to
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languages as possible. Wikipedia is one of the most popular reference
sites on the internet, receiving around 60 million hits per day.

Wikipedia contains approximately 1.6 million articles. More than
600,000 of these are in English, more than 250,000 in German, and more
than 100,000 each in Japanese and French. It began as a complement to
the expert-written Nupedia on January 15, 2001. Having steadily risen
in popularity, it has spawned several sister projects, such as
Wiktionary, Wikibooks, and Wikinews. It is edited by volunteers in wiki
fashion, meaning articles are subject to change by nearly anyone.
Wikipedia's volunteers enforce a policy of "neutral point of view"
whereby views presented by notable persons or literature are summarized
without an attempt to determine an objective truth. Its articles have
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Can you spare a few minutes? Please take moment to register there. We
plan to better 'connect' your existing user account to this wiki later.
We are also migrating our Directories to this new platform. Please
check to see where your name should be listed.

One of our first 'collaborative' projects is the development of our
Blood Fractions Guide. Please take a moment to see how we are
leveraging this 'wiki' to develop this guide. And remember everyone can
participate! It's fun, educational and satisfying! Perhaps for example
you can help us improve the description of Interleukins.

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Featured Event

SABM Symposium 2005

September 16-18, 2005
Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa
Phoenix, Arizona

Theme: "Blood Management: Shifting the Paradigm"

Learn of the latest research and join international experts from
science, medicine, and economics, together with public health sector
officials and industry.

SYMPOSIUM FACULTY
(AS OF JUNE 1, 2005)

Davy Cheng, MD MSc
 London, Ontario, Canada
Howard Corwin, MD
 Lebanon, New Hampshire
Sharon Dilling
 Highstown, New Jersey
Wojciech Dobkowski, MD
 London, Ontario, Canada
Shannon Farmer
 Perth, Australia
Patricia Ford, MD
 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Arnold Friedman, MD
 New York, New York
Daniel Friedman
 Grover Beach, California
Paul Hèbert, MD
 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    Kenji Inaba, MD
 Los Angeles, California
James Isbister, MD
 Sydney, Australia
Keyvan Karkouti, MSc MD
 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Yoram Klein, MD
 Rehovot, Israel
Mauricio Lynn, MD
 Miami, Florida
Jeff Monkash, MD
 Hudson, New York
Paul Ness, MD
 Baltimore, Maryland
Sherri Ozawa, RN
 Englewood, New Jersey
Patricia Parce, RN
 Baltimore, Maryland
Kathleen Sazama, MD JD
 Houston, Texas
Carl Schulman, MD
 Miami, Florida
Aryeh Shander, MD
 Englewood, New Jersey
Richard Spence, MD
 Baltimore, Maryland
Joseph Thomas, RN
 Cleveland, Ohio
Michelle Thomas, RNC
 Newark, New Jersey
Elora Thorpe, RN
 Kansas City, Missouri
Deborah Tolich, RN
Mineral Ridge, Ohio
Ronald Travaglino
Englewood, New Jersey
Amy Tsai, PhD
La Jolla, California

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in the event of a medical emergency, keep in mind that we are working
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