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This is regarding pelvic fractures.
2006-06-18 14:52:22 · 5 answers · asked by carolinagrl 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
"Gan" you don't have contact info so I'll brief this up for you; internal illiac fracture right side from 15 ft. fall, 50 yr old male, M.I. before angiogram and shock from drop in bp. No pulse. Fatal injury.
I believe that this patient had a tear in the area of the right atrium which caused the loss of blood. Patient prognosis; "death from pelvic fracture". My question is, can a patient suffer a heart injury from the fracture other than the loss of bp due to a torn illiac artery?
2006-06-18 16:23:39 · update #1
internal illiac artery bleed can occur in pelvic fractures and that can lead to rapid death if not controlled, pelvic fractures cannot lead to cardiac ruptures but rib fraactures can lead to cardiac ruptures and tamponade .....does that answer ur question
2006-06-18 18:00:30 · answer #1 · answered by drvivekmahajan 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, I've been around practicing medicine for a quarter of a century, so I suppose that'd make me an experienced physician... However, there are lots of kinds of pelvic fractures: ischial ones, fractures of the pubic ramus, fractures involving the ilia, especially the iliac crest. And there are fractures that are just little chips of bone knocked loose; some are breaks that go through the bone without displacing anything; and some fractures have lots of pieces, going every which a way but loose. They're all very different, and handled very differently.
Can you perhaps refine what sort of pelvic fracture we're talking about here?
2006-06-18 15:53:45 · answer #2 · answered by gandalf 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
and you said male.....pelvic fracture...
but simple answer ..not from the fracture...
but from his been in the bed...for a long time could make him..prone to thrombosis...and he could die from that.....cause when you are immobilized..for a long time ...one get plague in different places....now smoking would aggravate the condition...
and use of contraceptive pill ..by females ...is another factor to aggravate the situation..
so if it was a female....all this would happen more frequently....
2006-06-18 16:53:45 · answer #3 · answered by kaka90250 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
blood is from the red blood cells that has more than 200 in the body
2006-06-18 17:15:50 · answer #4 · answered by piekingamerica 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-06-18 14:55:42 · answer #5 · answered by lynexxe 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋