Heart Attack Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment Get Fewer Treatments

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The worst week of Paul Battista and Cheryl Smith’s lives began with a middle-of-the-night text from their daughter. Leah, 20, was in her third year at Queen’s University in Kingston. “My back hurts so much,” she wrote to her mother after midnight on Oct. 26, 2017. “I’m crying. I don’t know what to do. I’m scared. ” Smith tried to troubleshoot with her daughter and suggested ways to ease her pain. “Thanks Mom … Wish y were here,” Leah wrote back. The next day Leah struggled to take deep heart attack treatment at home breaths. She spoke to both her parents by phone and said she would make an appointment with the campus doctor. Leah died of a “massive pulmonary embolism” — blood clots in her lungs — according to the coroner’s report. She had just started using a different birth control pill with a higher dose of estrogen one week before she texted her Mom about back pain. (Estrogen doesn’t cause blood clots, but it increases the risk for them. ) After five days in a coma, Leah was pronounced brain dead and her organs were donated.

“It was truly about timing luck for me, 56, some yard work a bike ride. was a couple of This Queen’s student yards from home I must have felt because I stopped the bike. ” In the moments, near Higgins’ house. Passer-by Greg Uhler stopped own A Fairfield man bike ride to Higgins until Fairfield police arrived with mobile defibrillation called AED. The Fisher remembers is waking in the hospital. days later, Fisher said likely would have died. His wife, was in that weekend with friends.