From: Glen Closson (glen_closson@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Feb 01 2006 - 17:45:10 PST
Where can I send a get-well card?
Regards,
Glen
Mater tua criceta fuit, et pater tuo redoluit bacarum sambucus
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From: Military Vehicles Mailing List [mailto:mil-veh@mil-veh.org] On Behalf
Of Ryan Gill
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 4:34 PM
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
Subject: Re: [MV] Medical News regards Ronzo- Update 3
At 3:33 AM -0500 2/17/06, Henry J. Fackovec wrote:
>Hey all:
>
>Ron was transferred to the Lahey Clinic in Mass this AM, and is
>undergoing the procedure, He went into the O.R. after 10AM, and as of a
>few minutes ago was still in surgery, so I am not sure what is up. He
>had told me that it was to be about 2 hours to do the stints, so maybe
>they needed to do the full bypass.
>
>I am not sure what's going on, but I am going to head over to the
>hospital in about an hour to kick some butt and make sure the MDs are
>not doing any non warranty work to drive the bill up.
Thing is, when they cut open the femoral artery to get access to the heart,
they insert this little sheath thing. Call it a non-standard inspection
port. Its kind of like popping a freeze plug on an engine while it's
running, then running a little wire through the block to get a look at the
water pump. The catheter and the stints and all that may only take a little
while to do, but the prep and especially the part where they pull the sheath
is tricky. At Emory U Hospital, protocol was for a Doctor (not a nurse or a
technician) to remove the sheath and that he'd be certain that the artery
was sealed afterward. More or less, after a few stitches, they'd stand there
with their leg on your crotch for around 20 minutes or more waiting for the
blood to clot and to be sure you didn't spring a leak. You can bleed out
through that artery in less that 5 minutes. So a groggy patient needs to be
watched constantly after a cath session.
Those additional logistics could have been part of the delay...
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