would i get stent operation that quick

[BigonaBianchi]

I had two stents in my kidneys

 

[brokenflipflop]

I think the OP has a point. I've got a really bad cold and no-one gives a crap and instead of a stint in hospital like HRH, I've had to work - and it's harder work than shaking hands all day.

 

[BigonaBianchi]

...oooohh...I get it now...ooops.

 

[rich p]

you could have had a stent as a hospital porter. Just nip back and edit it, your highness.

To that ex-stent it's true

I had a little stint in a twitcher way too

 

[ComedyPilot]

The answer is Yes if your important , No if your not , he is an important chap and those semi-complaining are not.

That is purely a matter of opinion.

 

[Zoiders]

The answer is Yes if your important , No if your not , he is an important chap and those semi-complaining are not.

If you were in a rural location then you would very likely get a helicopter as well, they wanted to transport my very elderly grandmother by air to get her back home from the lake district when she broke her arm, this was after her intitial treatment.

Phil the Greek is very elderly as well so I don't begrudge him an emergency scoop and run by heli if my Gran is entitled to one just for routine transport.

 

[Crankarm]

He is probably used to flying by helicopter having made many visits to see the natives by helicopter. Would have been a nice touch though if the pilot had been his grandson, but obviously his role in the RAF is rather different to an air ambulance pilot.

I wonder if any of the staff at the Papworth Hopsital who are treating him are from outside the UK which might cause the Prince to raise an eyebrow or two or make an ascerbic comment .....

 

[Deleted member 1258]

From having my chest pains confirmed as Angina to the angiogram took about two weeks and another couple of weeks to getting the stents in. But mine was urgent not an emergency, I was getting chest pains when I was pushing myself, if I wasn't pushing myself I wasn't having any problems. The NHS gets slagged off regularly but in my case they did an excellent job.

 

[summerdays]

I thought there had been a recent change in the way heart attacks (yes I know this isn't supposed to be one apparently), so that they fitted stents within a very short time span. (I'm sure I read it on the internet in the last couple of months but I can't find it - so maybe I'm making it up?)

 

[mangaman]

I thought there had been a recent change in the way heart attacks (yes I know this isn't supposed to be one apparently), so that they fitted stents within a very short time span. (I'm sure I read it on the internet in the last couple of months but I can't find it - so maybe I'm making it up?)

Yes it's standard practice for someone with an unstable heart problem (now medically labelled an acute coronary syndrome) to have an urgent angiogram and further treatment as appropriate.

The old classification of "heart attacks" as opposed to unstable angina is out of date.

Anyone who presents to a decent hospital (I suspect all UK NHS trusts now) would be referred for an urgent angiogram if they had chest pain that was felt to be cardiac - of course we don't know the D of E's ECG reading - which may have made it all the more urgent.

As an old person's doctor, I'm delighted to say there is a lot less ageism about these things in the NHS.

Someone as fit, and likely to benefit from a stent as Phil, regardless of age would be offered an angiogram.

As would a homeless person - no-one knows his exact medical condition on this forum, but I can assure you that emergency angiograms are routine in the NHS.

 

[Fab Foodie]

I had an emergency Stenting, opened the Lab (IIRC they don't call them Theatres) and called the team in just for me on a Sunday morning - fabulous service. I recall the consultant sitting down with a hand ful of consent forms and explaining the risks etc. and then saying In my case had no choice anyway!
It's an amazing procedure and the effects are immediate.

God Bless the NHS.

 

[The Jogger]

[QUOTE 1655186, member: 9609"]I have no doubt we would all get the stent where necessary, but the rapid transfer by helicopter to the top cardiac hospital in Europe, followed by care from the top heart specialists in that hospital. I doubt he will have experienced mobile phone obsessed nurses who couldn't be arsed to wash their hands in a full ward occupied by others coughing up blood and shitting on the floor.[/quote]
I don't think even the ConDems could bring the excellent dedication of nhs staff down to the level you describe.

 

[Red Light]

[QUOTE 1655186, member: 9609"]I have no doubt we would all get the stent where necessary, but the rapid transfer by helicopter to the top cardiac hospital in Europe, followed by care from the top heart specialists in that hospital. I doubt he will have experienced mobile phone obsessed nurses who couldn't be arsed to wash their hands in a full ward occupied by others coughing up blood and shitting on the floor.[/quote]

It just so happens that the "top cardiac hospital in Europe" is not far from Sandringham - about 30 miles - and the most obvious place to take him. It would be far better set up to handle it than the local hospital in Kings Lynn.


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[Crankarm]

I detect some jealousy and resentment in this thread. Am I right?

 

[User269]

i bet if i needed a stent operation i would not get it done as quick as another has just had it done .

You probably would, but I'm fairly cetain you wouldn't get a visit from the Queen.