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What Is An Anticoagulant?
A: Anticoagulation medication is medicine that prevents blood clots. Normally, the ability of our blood to clot is a very important defense against bleeding to death. When we are cut, our blood thickens to for a clot and stop the bleeding.
However, clots that form inside our viens or arteries can be deadly. Vienous clots can cause heart attack, stroke or embolism to name a few of the most deadly conditions.
Some examples of anti-coagulants are Coumadin, ASA, Plavix, and Heparin. If you have been taking blood thinning medicine or anticoagulants and a new doctor fails to advise you to continue, please speak up and ask that doctor why. If they do not give a satisfying answer or are unavailable, speak with the doctor who originally prescribed it or any other doctor wh ois available.
Discontinuing anticoagulants inappropriately can lead to serious illness and death. Doctors make mistakes and are fallible. No one knows your health like you. Question any decisions that don't feel right to you.
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- My wife died from a pulmonary embolism ten days after give birth to our child by c-section. We told her doctors and nurses at follow-up appointments about her leg swelling. We called her Ob/Gyn two days before that but he never returned our call.
Her doctors and nurses knew my wife was at risk for pulmonary embolism and that she was overweight. No one examined anything but her swollen ankles at the follow-up appointment. They didn't run tests on her heart, lungs or chest. They didn't check her pedal pulse like I read they should do. This has got to be medical malpractice, right?
- My right lateral femoral cutaneous nerve was damaged during my hysterectomy. I am experiencing much pain now and it's so difficult to walk that I can't work in my sales position any more. My follow up exams found that my nerve is not severed. However, my EMG was quite abnormal. Is this the surgeon's fault?
