On 06/07/2014 02:24 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > The general consensus is that the nurses on some of my > other lists, have never heard of anyone surviving a PE > event. That makes me a rare bird indeed. Lots of people survive minor pulmonary embolisms. Sometimes they don't even know they had one, until sometime later a scarred-over area in the lungs is detected on a chest X-ray. I know a couple other people who have had somewhat larger PE's, and survived (not larger than yours, larger than the ones that go undetected. They had shortness of breath and went to the ER, and it was treated as yours was.) If the embolism blocks off the pulmonary artery to one whole lung, then the chance to survive drops a lot. If it completely blocks the artery, you're dead before you hit the floor.
So, it is all a matter of degrees as to how large the blockage is. But, sounds like yours must have been very far up on the scale of blockages that can be survived. And, of course, the RIGHT treatment in time is critical! Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
