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Patient checklist

Urgent Warning Checklist

Do not wait overnight

If any item below applies, seek emergency care without delay.

  • Shortness of breath or chest pain
  • Fainting, severe weakness, confusion
  • Heavy or unstoppable bleeding
  • High fever (≥38°C / 100.4°F) or rigors
  • Rising abdominal pain and swelling after surgery
  • Vomiting with no gas or stool passage
  • Wound opening or foul-smelling drainage
  • Inability to urinate
  • Bloody vomit or black stools
  • Sudden leg swelling, redness, pain (possible clot)
Assoc. Prof. Cengiz Dibekoğlu, MD · cengizdibekoglu.com · For education only.

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