Supporting the goals and ideals of "Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism Awareness Month".

Would support an awareness month for dangerous blood clots — no money spent and no rules changed.

The details

Most people would see no change in daily life. The resolution would back the goals of a Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism Awareness Month. It spends no money and sets no new rules. A deep vein thrombosis is a blood clot in a deep vein, most often in the leg. A pulmonary embolism is what happens when that clot breaks loose and lodges in the lung. The resolution calls these clots serious but often preventable. It states that they affect as many as 900,000 people in the United States each year. It states that they kill an estimated 60,000 to 100,000 people a year. It also states that 1 in 4 people who have a lung clot die with no warning. It says the risk goes up with surgery, long stretches without moving, older age, and a family history of clots. It says pregnancy raises the risk too, for up to 3 months after birth. It puts the added medical cost at up to $10 billion a year. One clause points to March as the month.