How To Prevent Pulmonary Embolism?

September 18, 2008 by Jack  

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Deep vein thrombosis in the process of formation, part of a state of suspension, with the vein wall adhesions, falling all the time may be caused by pulmonary embolism. In addition, thrombosis after already full of veins, but after a few hours, thrombosis itself has contracted to process and the plasma out of thrombosis, narrowing the diameter of thrombosis, then on a floating status, is easily the loss.
     To prevent pulmonary embolism, had deep-vein thrombosis after 10 days of bed rest should be strictly above the bed should also avoid big events. 10 days vein thrombosis and not on the wall adhesion with the loss. In addition, the incidence can not be done within two weeks thigh massage, not to support the use of inflatable risk for a massage, so as not to squeeze due to thrombosis loss. More importantly, the disease after timely treatment, timely treatment. According to reports, did not use the drug treatment, the incidence of pulmonary embolism for 60 to 70 percent, 90 percent will be left over from the after-effects. The drug treatment of pulmonary embolism rate was 12 percent, the mortality rate of 1%. Therefore, timely and proper treatment will significantly reduce pulmonary embolism.
     In order to prevent pulmonary embolism, has used various methods to stop shedding of thrombosis. Including the inferior vena cava ligation, the inferior vena cava folded suture, the inferior vena cave folder, because these methods limit the calibre of IVC is not conducive to blood returning gradually be eliminated. It is now widely used catheter treatment methods, the next vena cava filter built-in umbrella. The umbrella filter placed in the renal vein below, even shedding a thrombosis, or blood flow into the pulmonary artery, was blocked filter umbrella. For a small thrombosis and pulmonary embolism caused by the repeated attack patients, may consider to do this within the umbrella of IVC filter implantation.

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