When a Tacoma newborn’s heart began to fail, surgeons at Seattle Children’s stepped in with a high‑wire move: a transfusion‑free open‑heart repair that kept donor blood entirely out of the operating room. The baby needed correction of a complex congenital heart defect that usually calls for transfusions, yet clinicians relied on specialized blood‑conservation techniques instead. The family, who declined blood products for religious reasons, said they were relieved to finally bring their son home after months in the hospital.
Case details and family context
According to The News Tribune, the infant, identified as Hermann Ntuadi, was born in mid‑September with a complete, unbalanced atrioventricular septal defect and went into heart failure soon after…..