what will happen if you damage an artery, let's say due to a deep cut?
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You will lose lots of blood, go into shock and die...
583313
The fatality happens when part of the clot breaks away and causes a blockage. Keep to your medical advice.
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It depends on the size of the artery that is torn. The complications would be internal bleeding. Depending on the volume and location of the internal bleeding, death by blood loss or compressing the brain could occur. In an aneurism such as a brain aneurism or abdominal aortic aneurism, the artey is not yet torn but weakend and bulged out. These are at risk for tearing but if caught soon enough can be repaired sugically. A torn middle meningeal artery can lead to bleeding into the brain which compresseses it.
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Blood clots are a natural and necessary part of the healing process. However, when they occur internally or in the wrong place, as a result of disease or injury, they can be dangerous. If an internal blood clot breaks loose and travels through the circulatory system, it may become lodged in an important blood vessel and block the flow of blood to vital organs. The result may be a heart attack, stroke, disabling injury in the limbs or pulmonary embolism.\n\nTo prevent blood clots, many patients will be given medications, including antiplatelets or anticoagulants. These medications work by inhibiting the natural blood clotting process. To minimize the damage from existing blood clots in an emergency situation, a physician may prescribe clot-busting drugs, which break up blood clots.\n\nYou may also go to www.webmd.com  for all your medical questions. \n\nI hope this answers your question and that I have been helpful.\nGreg120750
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it may indicate nerve or circulatory damage...call doctor asap!!
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Not more than a couple of minutes. That's why a serious injury on the carotid artery or the wrist is so dangerous.\n\nIf I had to ballpark it, I would say about 3-4 minutes depending on the size of the person.
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direct injury to the area.....any bleeding disorder.....bleeding from the nose which might be confused with mouth bleeding.....any pathology their like tumors.
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definitely.  It can cause everything up to a heart attack or stroke and death.
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It depends on the cause of death.  If it is something to so with the lungs, then yes, but if it a stroke or a fall, then maybe not.\n\nThat is a bit of a weird question though...why are you wondering that?
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It's not just paper cuts. Any shallow cut-whether made by paper or a sharp plastic edge-hurts more than a deep cut because the shallow one remains open. The body quickly seals, with a blood clot, a deeper cut that bleeds. Indeed, any wound not sealed off, like an ulcer or a burn, hurts and, as soon as the doctor covers the open wound with a gel dressing, the pain lessens. Try it the next time you get a paper cut. Cover your cut with a gel dressing made for ulcers and feel the tenderness lessen.
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It can depend on how deep the vessel was that was injured with the bump. You can bleed deeply and it takes several days for the blood to surface hence the late blooming bruise or... you injured a vessel but it did not break open, then in your sleep you hit it or pulled by stretching and the injured vessel then leaked hence the bruise.
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Technically if done right the person would never die. There is nothing fatal to small cuts, especially if there is little or no blood involved. A person can survive losing up to 30% of their blood, any amount beyond that would result in death if not replenished quickly. The average person has 7 liters of blood so you can image it would be a quite substantial amount, roughly 2.1 liters that you'd have to lose to die. I am bored and will do some math for you, I am guessing that a paper cut releases approximately 1ml of blood on average. That would be 2100 cuts. But then again not all paper cuts bleed, and it also depends a bunch on the physical level of the person being cut, if they are older they may have trouble developing clots and may be done in by 1/4 as many cuts due to uncontrollable bleeding. I advice not trying this out as you are almost guaranteed to get some sort of infection even if the cuts do not harm you.
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blood being living cells would die and rot...you dont breath when youre dead, so they arent collecting any oxygen, yes like that other person, it will coagulate.  Also your heart isnt pumping so it will not be able to move through the vessels without this pressure, so it will clot...it isnt common for it to build up in the vessels, but the amount of time it was out will determine what happens...it is one of the factors that help crime investigators tell how long something has been dead..CSI/Law&Order-esque
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what happens in atheroschlerosis is that lipids like cholesterol get trapped into the arterial tissue, is attacked by your immune system which causes inflammation and the artery walls thicken, reducing blood flow. clots can also block arteries
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If you roll you foreskin back and don't put it back where it belongs it will cut off you circulation and cause swelling in which it will be VERY hard to put it back. IT'S GONNA HURT!!
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Broken blood vessel. It's happened to me more than once. Feelsa little sore, but goes away. Visine can help it feel better.
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The dangers of not doing the surgery is infection, amputation, gangrene, and the infection can spread.  She can ask to try angioplasty to open up the artery first if that would ease her some,  it is much less invasive than the fem. bypass.  But the doctor would have to take into consideration, length, severity, and which arteries are blocked.  I've seen many people go through each of the procedures well.  Just make sure the doctor has done the procedure before.  Hope this helps a little.