Thread: Good Luck To Stephen, But Shame On Nhs
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Old 04-03-2008, 15:20   #7
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Re: Good Luck To Stephen, But Shame On Nhs
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Originally Posted by foreverwar View Post
The condition means that Mr Smith has to be able to reach a hospital within 30 minutes at all times. He said that the jackpot of £18,992,109 would make no difference to his health: “I can’t go private and say, ‘Fix this for me now, it doesn’t matter what it costs’. [The aneurism] has to get to a certain size before they can operate on it.”
This is the case with any aortic aneurism. The surgery is highly risky in of itself. The Aneurism needs to reach about 6cm diameter before the risk of surgery is outweighed by the risk of tear in the aortic wall. Being within 30 mins of a hospital is largely irrelevant. If it tears you bleed out into the chest cavity in seconds to minutes, all you can do is monitor it by ultrasound regularly and decide when to operate.
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