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my wife was diagnosed with bilateral pulmonary embolism at a local area hospital. She was given a shot and placed on coumadin and sent home from the ER. the next day her pain was so bad we had to take her to another hospital. We were told by that ER Dr that she should have been admitted to the hospital the night before on our original visit and treated. The Clots by this point had caused a pulmonary infarction which killed her lower left lung tissue.his direct words out of his mouth were "you need to understand something, you should have never been sent home in this condition, do you understand what I'm telling you? You should have never went home like this." so now we are dealing with her reduced lung capacity. she is only 25 years old and was healthy up to this point. They believe the blood clots wEre caused by her pregnancy. they also told us that she was cOumidin sensitive and that the other hospital head thinned her blood into dangerous levels and should've tested it b4 release.
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I think there are some situations in which a pulmonary embolism can be initially treated at the hospital and then the patient can be monitored as an outpatient, but obviously your circumstances did not fit that scenario given the outcome and what the subsequent treating doctors are telling you.
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Answered on Dec 11th, 2013 at 7:31 PM