embolism it’s lousy. There’s this new.. .these... these.. .they’re called clot buster drugs.
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.we’re using them on people with heart attacks now if we get them early. So experimentally we’re using them
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now on people with pulmonary embolism.. .and that’s
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what this other girl got but she was early.
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she was still awake and she was still breathing.
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she,
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wasn’t in shock. And.. .and it worked out on her.
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Det.
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Sudler:
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What’s the window that you had to look through. .you
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know..
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like.. .you know.. .the golden hour of getting
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a trauma patient.. .you know.. .to the hospital or
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something like that.. .1 mean.. .you know. I know
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that’s what we always hear in our training.. .if you
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get shot you’ve got a golden hour.
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get to the hospital. With an embolism is the same
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thing.. .I mean...?
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Minkoff:
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Yeah. I mean.
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it depends how big is the embolism...
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how much of the pulmonary circulation’s getting
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blocked off. You know.. .like if it’s just blocking
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one lung, you could probably make it. If it’s
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blocking both.. .you know...the...if it’s.. .if it’s
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the main pulmonary arteries before the branch between
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the right and left.. .you know.. .then your chances are
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.are lousy.
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Det.
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Sudler:
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Okay.
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Minkoff:
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If it’s just a small clot and it goes to one part of
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the lung.. .you know.. .then you’re.. .then it’s.. .it’s
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not as bad.
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Det.
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Sudler:
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But the treatment would be basically medication to
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do that?
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Minkoff:
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Yeah.
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Det. Sudler:
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Or is there anything else that can be done.. .no
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