My Dad has a blood clot smack in the middle of his pulmonary?!
Question:
My Dad has a blood clot smack in the middle of his pulmonary?
artery and he has had it for 12 days before being seen by a Doctor, he is extremely stubborn and refused to go to the ER, being that he weighs 350# the doctors dont want to do any surgeries or procedures thinking he end up with a stroke or other complications, so they are going to send him home with Coumadin and major pain meds d/t severe pain, does this mean he will be a ticking time bomb. the doctors say he cantt get any worse and the clot isnt going any where and in fact they said it is already in the worse spot that it could be in.. What is the prognosis of this and is he pretty much a ticking time bomb, Thanks for any input! the pain is d/t ischemia from the blood clot laying where it is.
Answers:
He wasn't sent home to die, how uncompassionate!!!!
He was sent home on warfarin in order to thin the blood and stop the clot from getting bigger. The body will eventually dissolve the clot on it's own. There is no surgery that can take a clot out of the pulmonary system so the treatment is supportive care and blood thinning until the body can dissolve the clot.