re: #35 laZardo

Traumatic Aortic Rupture.

In my dads case (and I think most cases of this) the big problem is not so much repairing the aorta (they closed his off)… it’s because the blood bleeding out inside the body, it cause all sorts of pressure on other organs, smaller vessels burst, you have a lot of other bleeders… he actually bled out twice… initially and then after they repaired the aorta and gave him a massive amount of transfusions, he bled out again, mainly through the smaller vessels… they finally stabilized him, using all sorts of blood clotting agents and stuff… and he started to regain functions in the liver and the kidney.. they had induced a coma… he actually live two days, rare to even survive the initial incident… but they decided the lack of blood had given him irreversible brain damage.