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Patient 1
THE COMPLAINANT REPORTED THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION. SHE HAD EXPERIENCED PAIN IN HER UPPER LEFT ARM AND STOPPED WEARING THE ARMBAND FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS. THE PAIN WORSENED TO THE POINT THAT SHE COULD NOT BEND OR STRAIGHTEN THE ARM. SHE WENT TO AN EMERGENCY ROOM ON (B)(6) 2012, WHERE SHE WAS REPORTEDLY DIAGNOSED WITH BLOOD CLOTS AFTER AN ULTRASOUND AND SEVERAL SCANS. SHE REPORTED THAT THE CEPHALIC AND BRACHIAL VEINS WERE BLOCKED. SHE WAS PRESCRIBED A BLOOD THINNER. SHE REPORTED THAT IT WAS A LOCALIZED BLOOD CLOT, NOT SYSTEMIC, AND WOULD CLEAR UP AFTER 3-4 MONTHS. SHE REPORTED THAT THE EMERGENCY ROOM STAFF NOTED THAT THE CLOT WAS IN AN UNUSUAL PLACE AND WOULD LIKELY HAVE RESULTED FROM DIRECT CONTACT, IMPACT OR INJURY. SHE REPORTED THAT SHE DID NOT HAVE AN INJURY. SHE THEN REPORTED THAT AFTER SHOWING THE ARMBAND TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM STAFF, THEY SAID IT MUST HAVE BEEN THE CAUSE, BECAUSE THAT WAS THE ONLY THING THAT MADE SENSE. SHE ALSO REPORTED HAVING A FULL CT SCAN AND GOING TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM FOR TWO ADDITIONAL VISITS, BOTH UNRELATED TO THE BLOOD CLOT. ONE VISIT WAS FOR A COUGH AND SHE DID NOT MENTION THE REASON FOR THE THIRD VISIT. SHE REPORTED THAT SHE HAD BEEN COUGHING FOR A LONG TIME. AS A RESULT OF STARTING A BLOOD THINNER, SHE WAS TOLD TO DISCONTINUE HER MIGRAINE MEDICATION AND HAD SUFFERED A MIGRAINE SINCE THE EMERGENCY ROOM VISIT WHICH CAUSED HER TO LOSE A WHOLE DAY. SHE MENTIONED THAT HER BLOOD PRESSURE COULD NO LONGER BE TAKEN ON HER LEFT ARM. WHEN ASKED, SHE REPORTED THAT SHE WAS NOT WEARING THE ARMBAND TOO TIGHTLY. UPON REQUESTING THAT THE ARMBAND BE RETURNED, THE COMPLAINANT REPORTED THAT THERE WAS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE ARMBAND AND THAT IT WAS WORKING PROPERLY. MEDICAL RECORDS AND RETURN OF THE ARMBAND HAVE BEEN REQUESTED MULTIPLE TIMES, BUT HAVE NOT BEEN PROVIDED.