I work in healthcare and gladly deliver blood transfusions (BT) to patients when ordered. Been POMO for almost 2 decades and was raised as a JW in a moderately strict home. Unequivocally, if you have an emergency and are experiencing or getting close to hypovolemic shock due to trauma from childbirth, an accident, or a GI bleed, no amount of volume expanders or any other BS the HLC tries to coerce the JW patient and/or family to request will be of any sort of effective treatment. My PIMO friends ask me all the time and try to educate them on the realities of what I've seen working in ER, Medicine, and Surgical units. I tell them if you want, or your spouse/family member, to survive an unexpected trauma, hide or throw away your blood card(s) or tell the ambulance attendants to disregard it. Also, once a patient is incapacitated or unable to make a sound informed decision, it goes to the spouse/partner, then adult child(ren) and so on, even if a No Blood card (Advanced Care Directive) is signed or being followed (Check local State/Provincial laws for specifics). Take advantage of that if you are in that position. Patient charts are confidential and property of the Hospital so the HLC nor elders can or will get access or know about it.

99% of surgeries will not even get close to requiring blood. Surgeons, like any highly skilled professionals, are proud of their work and take pride in not having to order/rely on unnecessary treatments due to poor technique which could reflect on them. Blood is always a last or life saving resort, blood banks have chronically low stock supply especially since Covid and they know that. The Organization makes it out to be that Dr's have Type O on tap and ready to infuse any and everyone who comes into the hospital. I find it really annoying when a JW comes in (admitted or not) and makes sure everyone and the dietician knows their bloodless view when their diagnosis or condition won't even come close to requiring blood. I have never heard of a bladder infection, back pain, or COPD exacerbation alone that requires a BT. BT can and will make the recovery faster with better patient outcomes. As far as less infections with no BT, there is no evidence to support that. If it's an infection related to surgery, the culprit would usually be technique during surgery or care post operative.