Ok. It is extreme generalized edema. The patient was just fluffy, and puffy. It was a strange feeling this fluffy edema. No pitting. Just fluff.
Also impossible to draw blood on or start an IV.
It was just impossible. And the House MD just laughed at me because he did not want to do it either, after my bizillion sticks. (no just kidding not that many)
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Mike // February 16, 2009 at 19:13 |
Anasarca? I always thought that was the little Italian girl who lived down the street.
seejanenurse // February 17, 2009 at 01:45 |
Maybe it was. ?