Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery, Dr. Giovanni B. Ciuffo is the director of a Minimally Invasive and Bloodless Heart Surgery Center. Here is a question I always recommend for Jehovah’s Witnesses who need cardiac surgery but absolutely refuse a blood transfusion, even at the cost of risking their own lives: “What overall percentage of your surgical patients require blood transfusions?”

1. Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery Don’t Settle
Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery, Dr. Giovanni B. Ciuffo is the director of a Minimally Invasive and
Bloodless Heart Surgery Center. Here is a question I always recommend for Jehovah’s Witnesses who
need cardiac surgery but absolutely refuse a blood transfusion, even at the cost of risking their own
lives: “What overall percentage of your surgical patients require blood transfusions?”
If bleeding is not an option, one should not be settling for a surgical service “willing” but not “used” to
perform bloodless procedures. Your best bet is to look for a surgical service that “routinely” applies
bloodless surgery techniques to the clinical benefit of all their patients.
This routine approach allows surgeons to develop a service with low rates of blood transfusion and a
much higher confidence to deliver good results in those cases when the use of blood products is not
allowed at all for personal or religious reasons.
These are the type of questions that might help you get a sense of what could be done for you. If you do
not get a positive answer you still have the option to consult with a reputable Minimally Invasive Heart
Surgery Center.
You certainly do not need to be a Hollywood star or a famous fashion model to demand a scarless or
minimally invasive operation routinely available to most of our patients. I want you to know that more
and more people are willing to travel quite a distance out of town to get the right operation for them.
It often starts with a simple phone call and the mailing or e-mailing of some detailed clinical information.
I have personally seen and treated an increasing number of patients who come from out of state
specifically looking for a minimally invasive and or bloodless surgery option they could not find back
home.
Doing some serious shopping about it is a very reasonable thing to do. After all, it’s your body, it’s your
heart, it’s your life! You are definitely worth the extra mile.
Dr. Giovanni B. Ciuffo
Dr. Giovanni B. Ciuffo is the director of the Minimally Invasive and Bloodless Heart Surgery Center and
performs Minimally Invasive and Bloodless Heart Surgeries.
To find out what your options are for Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery contact the Minimally Invasive
and Bloodless Heart Surgery Center at 330-363-1341.