Question

A 26-year-old recently underwent surgery and is now experiencing dyspnea, cough, fever, and leukocytosis. Tests reveal a collapsed lung caused by the removal of air from obstructed alveoli. Which term is used to document this condition?

Answer 1

The symptomatic condition presented by the patient makes us the diagnosis of pulmonary thromboembolism. Pulmonary thromboembolism is a pathology that complicates many surgeries, hence whenever a post-surgical patient has dyspnea, fever, chest pain, we must think that this pathology may be doing.