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Originally Posted by pman10
I certainly felt sympathy and horror for the poor kid this happened to, when I watched this video.
That being said, from a medical point of view, I have never seen or heard of anything like this before. As horrific as it sounds, falling face-first was what prevented him from dying on the spot (although supposedly he perished hours to days later). The muscle/anterior bone structure of the face absorbed the force of impact and saved him from severing his brainstem. Hard to say if any/how much of his cortical brain is intact - it's possible that he destroyed his prefrontal cortex from the impact.
I was also shocked by the quality of medical care. Why was he intubated but not put on ventilator? Why was he not sedated in the ER? Etc etc
http://robertlindsay.wordpress.com/2...ccident-video/
The link has some more information for those of you who are curious about the details like me. |
Do you think he could have lived if the accident had taken place in an industrialized country with better healthcare?