A screwball lawsuit to complicate things

[catwoman]

The next thing we'll hear is a Coumadin user suing a knife company for not putting a warning on their knives.

Just as my husbanad was almost asleep last night, I jabbed in the ribs and told him about this thread. He jerked upright in bed. Then I related Karlynn's comment about suing a knife maker.
He mentioned my injury right before Christmas when I did a good job of trying to slice off my left index finger. ER doc unable to suture edges of the slide together because it was too wide but not wide enough to graft. ER RNs failed to use pressure to stop bleeding before bandaging it. Woke up @ 2:30 with bed blood-soaked.
I joked then about suing Henkel's -- and the knife store where I had just had my knives sharpened -- and Williams-Sonoma, where I bought 'em. Gotta cover all your bases in a lawsuit. My husband thought it was an excellent idea last night. Would help cover rising cost of gasoline.

 

[jeffp]

I think I'll sue the local weatherman for not predicting the ice and snow storm we got in December that caused Mike to slip and fall on the ice and break his tailbone and bleed! Or, let's see...I'll also sue Dodge for making the door to our truck too big and causing Mike to slam his finger in the door and bleed...Or, let's see...what about the maker of the sander at the shop that he cut his finger on and bled?

Sorry Pam, they've all been done before. You need to think more creatively!!

 

[Cris N]

I was checking out the reference section which led me to this site: http://www.chestjournal.org/cgi/content/full/119/1_suppl/22S

Interesting comment about Dental Procedures:

Dental procedures represent a particularly common intervention for patients receiving anticoagulant therapy. A comprehensive review of the subject indicated that in most cases, no change in the intensity of anticoagulation is needed. To our knowledge, there are no well-documented cases in the literature of serious bleeding in this setting, but there are a number of documented cases of embolic events in patients whose warfarin therapy was discontinued for dental treatment. If there is a need to control local bleeding, tranexamic acid or epsilon amino caproic acid mouthwash has been used successfully without interrupting anticoagulant therapy.

Cris