This case is another example why proper patient care is so important:

But complications arose five days later, when the ear turned purplish black as its connecting veins struggled to send blood back to the heart, causing the blood to pool. Over the next five days, the team rescued the ear with manual bloodletting, a labor intensive process that required almost five hundred individual interventions.

Every hospital cutting nursing jobs to a skeleton crew has blood (and ears) on their hands.

And it’s the same with rehabilitation measures: especially with neurological damage after a stroke or brain hemorrhage starting with therapy ASAP preserves and restores function and abilities that are lost if it takes months to get therapy.