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Sunday, September 03, 2006
Standards of Care While researching my injury on the net today, I found this paper (in .pdf) that does a good job of describing the nature of the injury, possible complications, and the general treatment method. The first page describes the Schatzker scale that is used to rate the severity of a plateau tibial fracture (though the language used here is pretty dense medical terminology). The scale goes from 1 to 6. In the hospital, I was told that mine was a, "big six." I was also interested to learn that 1 in 10 people with this injury develop deep vein thrombosis. Those are the same type of leg clots that people get from sitting in one place too long on airplanes. Those odds are a bit scary. I am on an anti-coagulant regimen though. Twice a day, I give myself a 30 cc shot of Lovenox in the fat of my stomach to help prevent clots. I also frequently flex my calf, apparently the most common site for these clots, in an attempt to maintain good blood flow throughout the surgical sites. A friend from work developed a clot after a recent surgery of hers when they had put her clotting chances far lower. It left her off hand a little bit numb and dumb. Hopefully the meds and exercise will keep me protected as I'd greatly prefer drugs to keep me numb and dumb. |
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