{"id":567694,"date":"2010-05-18T00:54:29","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T04:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/?p=10878"},"modified":"2010-05-18T00:54:29","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T04:54:29","slug":"what-is-fat-embolism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/567694","title":{"rendered":"What is Fat Embolism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The term &#8216;<strong>fat embolism<\/strong>&#8216; was mentioned in the season finale of the popular TV series <strong>House<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/7900W.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10879\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/7900W.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"357\" height=\"253\" \/><\/a>\u201cYeah, she died from a fat embolism, riding in the ambulance after the amputation. It was unavoidable,\u201d said Saul Nutts. \u201cI don\u2019t even know what that is, but I gotta look it up now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe mostly lived until the end of the episode. Had a fat embolism from the amputation. I can\u2019t believe she would,\u201d said Maria.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/emedicine.medscape.com\/article\/460524-overview\">emedicine.medscape.com<\/a>, Zenker first described fat embolism at autopsy in 1862. In 1873, von Bergmann clinically diagnosed fat embolism syndrome for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>But what is fat embolism and what causes it?<\/p>\n<p>Fat embolism syndrome (FES) occurs when embolic fat macroglobules pass into the small vessels of the lung and other sites, producing endothelial damage and resulting respiratory failure (ARDS-like picture), cerebral dysfunction and a petechial rash. It can be difficult to diagnose. Fat embolism is caused by fractures, Orthopaedic procedures, Massive soft tissue injury, Severe burns. Bone marrow biopsy and Nontraumatic settings. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.patient.co.uk\/doctor\/Fat-Embolism.htm\">http:\/\/www.patient.co.uk\/doctor\/Fat-Embolism.htm<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>No related posts.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/sevensidedcube\/OXLF\/~4\/wgZ6QZl1Z-M\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The term &#8216;fat embolism&#8216; was mentioned in the season finale of the popular TV series House. \u201cYeah, she died from a fat embolism, riding in the ambulance after the amputation. It was unavoidable,\u201d said Saul Nutts. \u201cI don\u2019t even know what that is, but I gotta look it up now.\u201d \u201cShe mostly lived until the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}