EDITED: N.Y. Rangers' Sean Avery in hospital with lacerated spleen.

First report said he was in cardiac arrest.

 

OK.... so the same as Jim Fixx, John McSherry, Hank Gathers.

Did the report say cocaine-induced cardiac arrest?

Is Avery 22?

Bias was unlike anyone else in the realm of athletic cardiac arrest. The Celtics were poised to grab another title or two, and Detroit probably never would have won one if he had lived. Massive moment in sports.

Sean Avery? Puhhlease.

 

Thought maybe you missed what was first reported. Didn't infer anything.

 

Was cocaine part of the initial report? If so, I apologize.

 

I didn't say that it was. Find the person who posted the Bias thing and work it out with them.

 

According to the Newsday story, the NYDN completely screwed the pooch on the Avery story.

http://www.newsday.com/sports/hockey/rangers/ny-sprang015669494may01,0,4356520.story

 

For the past few years, robotic surgery has made giant leaps. It allows small instruments to be controlled by the surgeon without the need to make space for the hands, like regular surgery. Arthroscopy and laparoscopy are similar, but with robotic surgery, there is little feel feedback from the instrument...you can decide if something feels hard or spongy. New skills need to be learned and if the company that manufactures the Da Vinci robotic system is right, regular surgery may eventually fade away, except as a last resort.

You read about cardiac bypass surgery, where the robotic "fingers" are inserted through small incisions in the chest and manipulate the mammary artery to be used to bypass blocked arteries on the heart surface, without the need to open the chest. Cool stuff.

It may be that the next generation of surgeons are today's video game geeks.

 

Doc, the stories say Avery's spleen was lacerated following a collision with a Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman. How would a body-on-body collision lacerate a spleen?

 

Didn't Jim McMahon have a lacerated spleen one season? Or was it a kidney?

 

Don Cherry blamed (I'm not kidding here) Avery's injury on the instigator rule.

 

He could have caught the butt end of a stick in the collision

 

Can you explain more?