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Coughing up blood after surgery29M, 150lbs, 57. No medication, no drug use, a drink 1-2x a week.Hello doctors, My husband had a minor urology surgery approximately 8 hours ago. He has been doing well, however, anytime he goes to lay down he begins to cough up bright red blood. It stops as soon as he sits back up. Is this from the intubation? He resident I called could not advise because he was not an anesthesiologist resident. Thanks for any insight.
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Depends in part on the volume of blood. If it's a few specks of bright red blood that he's spitting out after coughing, sure. If it's frank bleeding that he's noting when he lays down, that's something else entirely. If it's the later, it would be atypical to have that happen and last 8 hours. I'd be concerned enough at that point to bring him into the ED.
Definitely getting a second opinion, hopefully with someone that actually is interested in sitting down and talking things out instead of whatever this whole mess was.Thank you for letting me know that it's not unusual for urology PAs to work with those meds in general
I think it actually is unusual. Its not unprofessional or absolutely a bad thing, but its unusual.Its not only psychiatrists who manage psychiatric medications, but most of the other doctors (and PAs and NPs) who do it are generalists, so probably family our internal medicine primary care doctors and the occasional gynecologist who does primary care.