pneumonia first and then sepsis. Uh.
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.some of them will have a skin infection and then sepsis. In her case, I think what she had was a blood clot in her
leg followed by sepsis.
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Well, some of them are due to trauma like the leg
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got bumped or banged. ..the vein got injured.. .uh...
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and then in the process of.
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if.
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if you bumped the vein, broke a little hole in it,
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and then the body made a clot to block the hole.
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the clot got just too big and blocked off the vein.
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and then the clot grew.
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you get a clot and
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there’s stuff released in the area that makes more
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blood clot. Uh. .so it could’ve been something like
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that. You know, I was.
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had this car accident. Did she bump her leg.. .ummm...
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Teunis:
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Is there any other way of getting clots?
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Minkoff:
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Yeah.. .I mean.. .there’s.
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...I mean...if you look at the literature...the medical
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literature’ of people who have pulmonary emboli.
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and say look at youngish women who get pulmonary
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emboli.
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.some of them are on birth control pills...
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some of them are ‘pregnant.. .some of them have nothing.
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But they’ll get a clot in their leg, massive pulmonary
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embolism, and die.
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the thing isn’t that common but it occurs. And ‘I’ve
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seen that too where it’s like why did she do this...
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you know. I’ve got actually one of our nurses right
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now who is in the hospital.
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this is six weeks
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ago.. .I mean.. .she’s healthy.. .she’s a diver. .she’s’
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