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A family member was just hospitalized with a massive blood clot in his right arm (apparently the arm was purple last night).
What is a blood clot like this?
What causes them?
What is the treatment?
Thanks.
This is very painful and pain pills do not help. I have had it for over a year and the doctor was [...]
My grandma’s ankle has been swollen, and I don’t know if her foot is too, but she went to the dr. today and did an x-ray and told her to go to the big hospital in the nearest town and have an ultrasound done, and my grandpa said they said it might be a blood [...]
deviation of 3 seconds. what percent had blood-cloting times between 5 and 11 seconds?
a. 68%
b. 34%
c. 49/5%
d. 47/5%
This all boils down to the Standard Normal Distribution….
68% is your answer because for a Standard Normal Distribution approximately 68% of the values will fall within +/- one standard deviatio of the mean.
This is exactly what [...]
I am 10 weeks preg. and after sex w/my husband the other night I had light pink spotting when I wiped. It lasted all night and when I woke up I had a blood clot come out and then it stoped. I had no other symtoms. I called the doc. and he didn’t really give [...]
I recently started on the pill, and apparently it is easy to get blood clots on it.
I work out a lot, and my legs are often sore because of it, so I’m just wondering what would be the differentiating feeling between a blood clot and sore muscles?
Or generally, what would it feel like? Would it [...]
The majority of strokes occur when a blood clot lodges in a blood vessel, blocking blood flow to a portion of your brain (ischemic stroke). The group of brain cells normally nourished by the oxygen in the affected blood vessels dies almost immediately after blood flow is blocked, while surrounding brain cells experience reduced blood [...]
Medical emergencies such as heart attack have to be treated immediately. A delayed treatment might lead to severe complications and even death. That is why all specialists recommend an early treatment in order to increase the chances for recovery.
Treatment for this condition might begin in the ambulance or in the emergency room. The certitude [...]