In recent days, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Department of Respiratory Medicine rescue of the two series of patients with pulmonary embolism, the young people in employment are employed at the computer. Experts advise people work long hours sitting at the computer, Internet, play games, instead of getting up movement, not only suffering from cervical spondylosis, shoulder frozen, eye diseases and other illnesses, the deep veins, causing thrombosis leading to pulmonary embolism, pulmonary embolism mortals high as 20%. Severe pulmonary embolism can be life in minutes.
Recently, Nanjing, a 25-year-old boy suddenly unbearable chest pain, tightness in the chest, bloody sputum, in Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital emergency room examination and medical history that he sits media professionals every day, worked at the computer is processing of television, often sit for 10 hours do not get up, or even often working day and night sitting at the computer.
Doctors diagnosed initially as a pulmonary embolism. The CT angiography and pulmonary vascular ultrasound found that bilateral lesions in the lungs, pulmonary embolism, deep vein thrombosis. By hospital thrombolysis have anticoagulation measures turned the corner.
Coincidentally, the Drum Tower Hospital of Wuhu in severe pulmonary embolism, a 37-year-old patient, is also busy working on the computer, because of his severe pulmonary embolism, no relief in the local treatment of one month, doctors prepared to carry out surgical embolectomy save lives.
Drum Tower Hospital, Medical Director, Professor Zhang Deping that respiratory diseases, pulmonary embolism, slowed mainly due to the formation of long-term sitting and lying motionless lower extremity blood form clots gradually aggregate. Light as pneumonia, pulmonary embolism and heart disease diagnosed.
In general, more common in diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, fractures in elderly bedridden patients, and that two patients are young, usually no other problems. Pulmonary embolism occurred entirely with their long-term sedentary work before the computer is no movement. Professor Zhang Deping reminder that there are three typical symptoms of pulmonary embolism: chest pain, chest tightness, coughing up blood.
There is a sudden dizziness, falls palpitations, sweating and other symptoms, and some will occur on the side of the body pain and swelling. Therefore, long-term sedentary work at a computer or internet games for 1-2 hours should be able to get up and carry you, it is a conscious activity of the lower extremity, not squatting, etc, and accelerate wear the lower extremity blood flow, usually elastic stockings, bed-ridden, Regular massage could boost the circulation of the lower extremities. Once symptoms of chest tightness, chest pain, immediately to the hospital emergency room.

April 14th, 2010
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