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Can Cardiac Arrest Cause Blues Veins Visible?
my mom died suddenly at a nursing home at 92 years old. when I got there I looked her over and noticed a lot of swelling I didn't see two days before. I lifted the blanket and saw a lot of blue veins on her upper thighs. the cause of death was cardiac arrest but I wondered what might have come first. Are the blue veins a normal thing that happens? I had to travel 2 hours to get there
Fri, 10 Nov 2017
your morher died of cardiac arrest ..sorry to hear that ..now see ...in cardiac arrest heart stops all of a sudden ..and usually a resuscitation aytempts are done by doctors ..and there may be pooling of blood in mother leg veins as heart is not able to receive and pump blood further ...second thing is that she may be having some clottingvof blood in leg veins ...as i donot know exactly what triggered ur mother cardiac arrest as dis can be better told by treating doctor.. as you saw your mother in 2 hours ...surely the prominent veins were not due to putrefaction changes as they donot come so early
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