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December 13, 2007

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High Blood Pressure Treatment

High blood pressure can make a person’s life in risk in a number of ways. Elevated blood pressure effects not only heart but it can produce devastating effects for kidneys, cardiac muscles, strokes etc. If left unmonitored blood pressure can be dangerous to a certain extent.

Julie Schumacher

My husband underwent shoulder surgery (5 hours) in a chair. After the surgery, they retained him for two hours in observation. When he finally arrived to the room, the OR nurses were trading information with the night nurse and mentioned a large bump on his head (which nobody charted until the next day). The staff's explaination was that the 5 hours in the chair caused the lump - about the size of half of a baseball - on the backside of his head. Would someone please tell me if the beach chair position could cause an injury like this because of "positioning".

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