Archbold Medical Center| Archives Magazine | Winter 2018

14 ARCHBOLD MEDICAL CENTER CL O T BUSTERS ARCHBOLD FIRST IN REGION TO OFFER Tim Daniel, MD Vascular Interventional Radiologist YOUR BLOOD has many important jobs. It supplies essential nutrients, like sugars and oxygen, to cells while also removing waste materials, such as carbon dioxide and lactic acid, from cells. Blood is also crucial in regulating acidity levels and body temperature and protecting the body against infection. And though it must flow throughout your body uninterrupted to perform these important functions, your blood must also be able to shut off quickly and clot when you get a cut or injury. Blood clots are extremely beneficial when formed in response to an injury—they plug the injured vessel to stop the bleeding. But if blood clots don’t dissolve natu- rally in areas like your legs, lungs or brain, they can be very harmful to your health, resulting in heart attack, stroke and possibly even death. Patients who develop blood clots are often treated with blood thinning med- ications or with a vascular filter that is inserted into the vena cava, the largest vein in your body, to filter and prevent potentially fatal clots that some- times occur after serious injury or surgery. These treatments, which are used for non-life-threatening blood clots, work by thinning the blood, which often helps patients avoid complications from clots for a short period of time. A new, quicker, long-lasting solution Now Archbold Memorial Hospital’s vascular interventional radiologists Tim Daniel, MD, and Craig Yokley, MD, are also using a different method to safely treat the most life-threatening blood clots. The physicians are using the EkoSonic Craig Yokley, MD Vascular Interventional Radiologist