pulmonary embolism

10/4/2007 9:43:42 PM

lol i read about that like 3 minutes after that post you made in the thinking thread

10/4/2007 9:44:29 PM

ask that guy from Hanson

10/4/2007 9:44:40 PM

http://www.google.com/search?q=healing+time+for+a+pulmonary+embolism&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

10/4/2007 9:44:41 PM

Wolverine could do it in under 2 minutes.

10/4/2007 9:50:05 PM

is a week long enough??

10/4/2007 9:51:16 PM

omgah, seriously, is there a doctor in the house, I need to know this!!!!

10/4/2007 10:03:33 PM

sometimes they'll go away on their own

sometimes they have to be removed

best to get it removed before it ends up in a coronary artery.

10/5/2007 12:46:16 AM

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"omgah, seriously, is there a doctor in the house, I need to know this!!!!"

you do realize you posted this in chit chat, right?

10/5/2007 12:49:16 AM

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"omgah, seriously, is there a doctor in the house, I need to know this!!!!"

i'm the next best thing

10/5/2007 12:59:23 AM

eh I don't care anymore, he had surgery and will up and performing on the 8th, so it's all good

10/5/2007 6:28:49 AM

well, they dont exactly go away. unless they have to be removed, and that is pretty rare.

they have to be anticoagulated on heparin or coumadin or something to that nature.

once you have a PE you've got it... the focus is on preventing the next one from ever happening.

taking it easy for a few days is a good idea.....you know, so another clot doesnt break loose somewhere and cause another PE.

10/5/2007 6:42:22 AM

they could try thrombolytic therapy (if was indeed a blood clot), but that would probably only really be effective in the first few hours after it happening. the most important thing, as brainysmurf said, is to prevent this from happening again. most likely it was from a DVT, so he needs to be on anticoag therapy and perhaps have a doppler study of his lower extremities to evaluate further risk.

10/5/2007 7:22:55 AM

hey, the person who hanged themselves, was this in roanoke rapids by chance?

10/5/2007 8:19:11 AM

DVT ftl

gotta move those legs around, b.

10/5/2007 9:06:08 AM

^dude, we are finding fairly active people coming into the hospital from home with DVTs.


airplane rides and long road trips ftl


everyone should be on lovenox :-P


Will say one thing for PEs, they can lead to some BAD codes.


one poor guy was blue from his nipple line to the top of his head... there was no way we were gonna get him back.

10/5/2007 9:09:03 AM

I have no idea what you guys are saying anymore

10/5/2007 9:09:55 AM

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"was this in roanoke rapids by chance"

Yeah, it was at a playground.

10/5/2007 1:18:57 PM

use cure disease
spam lesser healing wave
gtg

10/5/2007 1:24:28 PM