{"id":208437,"date":"2019-08-13T09:17:23","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T14:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=208437"},"modified":"2019-08-12T18:43:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T23:43:23","slug":"tennessee-teen-blood-clot-birth-control-pills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/tennessee-teen-blood-clot-birth-control-pills\/","title":{"rendered":"SCARY: Tennessee teen nearly dies from blood clot caused by birth control pills"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eighteen-year-old Hailey Duncan of Memphis, Tennessee, nearly died<\/a>\u00a0in July because of her hormonal birth control pills.<\/p>\n

Duncan was hospitalized when a pulmonary embolism, which doctors say was likely a result of hormonal birth control, blocked off most of the blood flow to her lungs. Duncan’s surgeon, Dr. Brad Wolf of Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, told WREG 3 News that Duncan “had some bleeding earlier in the day from various CPR and some chest tubes that she had, and we couldn’t do the clot busting medicine, and also we couldn’t do surgery on her because she was too ill.” So in order to save Duncan’s life, doctors had to hook her up to an Ecmo machine that takes over for the heart and lungs.<\/p>\n

“We put one tube in the femoral artery and one tube in the femoral vein, and then the unoxygenated blood comes out of the vein and it goes through this machine, and it oxygenates it and pumps it back into the body,” Dr. Wolf told WREG. Duncan was off the machine within a couple of days, the news station reports.<\/p>\n