Posted on 03/30/2012 10:54:35 AM PDT by Sopater
Yes, thank you.
blood clots in the legs causes inflammation, swelling and redness....We would get patients with such clots in the hospital. The orders were not to massage the legs and a clot could break loose and travel to parts unknown in the body, heart, lungs brain...Its a serious condition...
PE is sometimes VERY hard to dx. Not justifying this ER's care, but PE can be very deceptive in presentation.
“. I’ve had at least two where they died in the hospital from clots - all of them as a consequence of some lower extremity injury.”
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I’ve always been fairly casual about lower extremity injuries. No more.
I’ve been aware of DVT on long flights for years,but a sprained,or even broken, ankle would not have concerned me at all. RICE treatment,cast etc. and that would be it.
Thanks for the info.
“Why, with such a large family, was she homeless?”
I read this story on MSN earlier today, I don’t know if it’s the same article linked here.
This woman seems to have had some serious mental problems, possibly exacerbated by drug abuse, but that part wasn’t clear. She also had had some real hard times that weren’t her fault at all, her home was destroyed in a tornado last year.
Her children were placed with her mother, but the court ordered she could not stay there too. Now I really wouldn’t put up with any court telling me my own child couldn’t live with me, but maybe she was a danger to them, obviously that’s not hashed out in the article.
I didn’t realize she had a lot of siblings, either.
I think this woman had mental illness and I’ll tell you that is the worst thing that can happen to a person and their family in this country.
It is IMPOSSIBLE to get any real help. You are on your own when dealing with an insane family member and good luck to you.
I’ve seen this twice, both my friend and my family member ended up dead by their own hands. Both times their families tried to help them. To no avail. And this was in the NYC metro area, the finest of everything, 24-seven, but no help that was really help.
Oh, they’ll lock you up for a while, but that’s about it.
My b-i-l also had one of these clot things. He was in the hospital for weeks. I myself heard the doctor say to him “you could have died at any time”.
I don’t know if the hospital just made a very bad mistake, or if they were negligent. I just feel like this woman didn’t have much of a chance and that is a shame.
Blood clots in the legs are apparently hugely painful. Women who are using birth control are exposed to blood clots in the legs. Given the victim was 29, the doctor should have put two and two together.
People have terrible personalities and social skills these days and that includes professionals who fancy themselves superior to the riff raff. Western ethics go with western medicine. No Western ethics = no Western medicine. We have been culturally cleansed by Humanists into a third world cesspool.
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