My wife had her 6th surgery on her ear yesterday. None happened after covid hit until now. She has to be put under each time, about 2 hrs of surgery. The first round of questions were normal pre-op. Then started the clot questions. Then any cancer issues. “Have you had any blood clots recently. Had any cancer recently”. Etc etc.. Then first time ever put the leg compressions on pre-op. She had NEVER had this before. Tell me.. what are they hiding. Hmmm. 🤔🤫. The answers are all around us.
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Well, I haven't had surgery for about 12 years but I remember at that time I was asked several times about clots, blood pressure, recent illnesses, and not only had compression stocking but a massaging machine for hours. I was not surprised as this happened during long surgeries. It's the lying around with decreased HR and BP for hours that predisposes for clots, even if it seems like there wouldn't be much blood involved.
Same for me. I had a 5 hour surgery about 20 years ago and had the massagers on my legs. I believe they put them on in the OR. I noticed them in recovery in my groggy, morphined state and told the nurse I loved the leg massage lol. She told me the put them on for long surgeries to keep the blood flowing because of being on the table for so long.