How do i know if i have a ruptured spleen

How do i know if i have a ruptured spleen

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Abdominal pain and tenderness are the classic symptoms of a ruptured spleen.

Does anyone know how serious a ruptured spleen is?

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Since this is in the Football section, I’m assuming you’re talking about the effect it would have on your career? Well, the only case I know of is Chris Simms. He ruptured his spleen in, I believe, the third week of the season a few years …

How do you know your spleen is ruptured??

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Your inner parts are pretty well protected, so I wouldn’t worry too much. You may have pinched a muscle or two or you may have even pulled a rib out of place. First can you take a deep breath all the way? If not you pulled a rib and need…

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I had mono and the doctors said i have a ruptured spleen and even 6 years later it hurts any suggestions?

Q: do anybody know if there is any things that i can take to make it betteror does anybody know how to fix this problem???

A: Go see your Physician. You did not get a ruptured spleen from mono so I am at a loss to know what to suggest. Your Physician can do a workup and advise you what to do or give you a prescription for the pain. Anyone here in Answers would not be able to diagnose your problem without a work up by a Physician.

How do I know if my spleen is ruptured?

Q: I just got over having mono for three weeks, and my spleen is severly enlarged, I’m a very small person, 5’3″ 90lbs, so the doctors told me it would be very easy for me to rupture my spleen and told me to just lay still for the next few weeks.Today however, I went to my sisters b-day party, and one of her friends came up behind me and tried to pick me up, squeezing me right on my spleen, and then I went and bowled for an hour.My side around my spleen is very soar now and it’s bothering me alot. Right below it is starting to hurt now and my whole stomach area is just not feeling right.Could this mean my spleen is ruptured? Or would I feel it acctually rupture?Ivndinkdnkldnfklafnksandksandmlsandmsadsadsad

A: you will feel severe pain and completely weak.. your color would turn very pale… if this is the case with you.. get to the hospital.. because you might be bleeding internally.

How Do You Know When To Turn Somebody Off Support And How Does An Anaesthesiologist Know How Much To Give?

Q: See, today I was finishing my weekend as part of the trauma team. I was working with my consultant and the scrub nurses. It was on Friday night and Mr Biggs (that’s not his actual name) presented to the A&E with serious head wounds and flail chest after his car swerved out of the way of a drunk driver and hit a tree at 60mph.At the time, my consultant Mr Lawson was busy in surgery after a routine spleen rupture. I (along with the A&E doctors) admitted Mr Biggs and I prepped him for surgery. I am still in my first year of trauma surgery training, but was told over the intercom by Mr Lawson that seeing as he was the only consultant on, I would have to begin unsupervised.I’m nowhere near skilled enough to fix a flail chest, which was the pressing concern, however, I know how to fix a ruptured spleen, and how to treat internal hemorrhaging. So I began there. The spleen was too badly damaged to fix, so I just removed it, and I found the internal bleeding and I stopped it.This is where the anaesthesiologist question comes in. It took me and the A&E crew 4 minutes to admit Mr Biggs and decide surgery was the desirable option. It then took the nurses and me 7 minutes to prep him for surgery and he was on the operating table in less than 15 minutes. How did the anaesthesiologist know how much to give? He hadn’t met Mr Biggs previous to that, he swanned in and simply waved his magic wand. So, do anaesthesiologists have some kind of magic power?But anyway, the surgery was a success. Mr Lawson came in just before I’d finished stopping the bleeding, and he scrubbed up and fixed the flail chest. Now, most people would think that was it, but Mr Biggs didn’t ever fully regain consciousness in the morning or afternoon of Saturday, and by Saturday night he was officially braindead.I woke on Sunday because my horrible little pager was going off in my ear. It was the post-op ward. Mr Lawson had consulted the chief neurologist Dr Rogan and came to the conclusion that the head injuries that were sustained were too severe. They had explained all this to his family, and they agreed that they would rather have their husband/father/brother being whole than a braindamaged shell that didn’t recognize them. I, being the whipping boy, was told to turn his life support off.I know the basis that you’re supposed to turn the life-support off when the patient becomes braindead, basically to free up beds because the managers are the ones that really run hospitals.But, if your relative was braindead, would you let them turn off the life support?I’m sorry that this is more of a rant, but it’s been a rough weekend and I kinda needed to unload. But, they are genuine questions.Actually, I did know it’s partly to do with body weight. But more out of curiosity, what drugs do they prefer, how do they remember them etc.My consultant told me not to think about it because it would drive me mad trying to understand how they think…And to be honest, it’s more of a rant…

A: It’s a closely guarded secret, how we do things, and if I told you, I’d have to kill you. LOLAnaesthesia is as much art as it is science. We start out learning formulas and weight based dosages, and all sorts of cookbook ways to do things, but with experience comes clinical judgment, and we use that as much as anything in determining what to give and how much of it. We have drugs we like, and those we don’t, and years of experience guide us. That wasn’t too helpful, was it?Turning off life support can be a kindness. It’s cruel to let a loved one languish in an ICU with tubes everywhere as they waste away and wait for death, if there is no hope of meaningful recovery. So, yes, I’d turn off life support out of love, even before brain death. (Braindead = dead, you know. Gone.)I hope your week gets better.