[quote]bushidobadboy wrote:
retailboy wrote:
Well I hope to have patients like you one day, ones that I don’t have to explain anything just throw pills at (not really).
I only have knowledge that my MCAT studying and a 4 year Bio degree has provided me(nothing compared to Bushy). BUT I believe with your symptoms and the medication he gave you, you injected into an artery and pretty much suffocated the cells by cutting off the hemoglobin supply. This is because it formed a blood clot which could of, after some time, broken off and eventually clotted in your brain and caused a stroke. The lack of oxygen also explains the inflammation.
-RetialBoy
Hmmm, not quite.
If you injected into an artery, you would probably NOT form a clot, because it is the presence of air that triggers the clotting cascade. Oil would be fine.
Secondly, if a clot did form in an artery, you are safe from pulmonary embolus or cerebral infarction, because the clot would be travelling away from the heart and so would get ‘filtered’ by the capillary beds of whatever tissue (the hand in this case, or some deltoid muscle perhaps) it ended up in. Definitely NOT the brain or the lungs though.
A lack of oxygen does not trigger inflammation. However ischemia will cause necrosis of the O2 supply is interrupted for too long (think frostbite). The dead tissue will turn black and slough off, but not before bacteria have got into it, creating serious problems.
Bushy[/quote]
Good points. I have definitely been enlightened.
For some odd reason I was thinking an artery like the carotid which travels to the brain.
How would the bolus put pressure for that long on the vein? Wouldn’t it go away when the oil degrades into the body?
Thanks!
RetailBoy