Michael Schumacher suffers 'serious' head injury

[wicked]

On the slopes, too, not in a race car.

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more-sports/michael-schumacher-injured-skiing-accident-report-article-1.1560668

 

[PCLoadLetter]

F1 journalist James Allen is reporting serious but not life-threatening injuries.

Scary stuff.

 

[jr/shotglass]

He was conscious, and yet he has a "serious" head injury? How does that work?

 

[Vombatus]

Hematoma?

 

[Uncle Frosty]

Much worse than first reported.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/111979

 

[Vombatus]

Natasha Richardson died from hitting her head on a beginner slope in remote Canada.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

Much worse than first reported.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/111979

Damn.

There are reports in the French media calling it a cerebral hemorrhage, but no one else has been able to confirm that.

 

[Shoeless Joe]

This is messed up. I really liked Schumacher during his Benetton days, but didn't at all while he was at Ferrari. I truly hope he pulls through.

 

[old_tony]

This sounds pretty bad, and he was even wearing a helmet.

 

[murphyc]

To me, the sad part is Schumacher retired -- at least in part -- to spend more time with family. He was skiing with his 14-year-old son when this happened. I can't even imagine what his son must be going through right now, much less the rest of the family. Prayers for Schumacher.

 

[DocTalk]

He was conscious, and yet he has a "serious" head injury? How does that work?

Often patients with bleeding within the skull, either an epidural/ subdural hematoma or an intracerebral hemorrhage or bleed within brain tissue, are initially awake. As the bleeding increases or the brain begins to swell, the level of consciousness can decrease.

The hard part of medicine is predicting who will decompensate.

 

[DocTalk]

http://www.medicinenet.com/head_injury/article.htm

http://www.medicinenet.com/brain_concussion/article.htm

Something I wrote awhile back for WebMD

 

[jr/shotglass]

He was conscious, and yet he has a "serious" head injury? How does that work?

Often patients with bleeding within the skull, either an epidural/ subdural hematoma or an intracerebral hemorrhage or bleed within brain tissue, are initially awake. As the bleeding increases or the brain begins to swell, the level of consciousness can decrease.

The hard part of medicine is predicting who will decompensate.

I was hoping you'd show up for that. That's what I was looking for. Thanks.

 

[Bubbler]

The greatest driver I've ever seen ... and I've seen them all in nearly every discipline if they raced from the mid-80s onward. Not my favorite, but a true great.

I hope he pulls through.

 

[Football_Bat]

Not a F1 fan myself, but it would royally suck to see a guy who survived at least one major crash on the track check out by going Sonny Bono on a black diamond. Hopefully he'll pull through.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Anybody else think this was one of those hoaxes when the news first broke? It seemed like a different celebrity was dying on a ski slope each week on Twitter last winter.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Liberal rag says he's fighting for his life:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/31/sports/autoracing/schumacher.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1388419397-s9uCICVNZ9wzSkxYVz053g

 

[KJIM]

Almost four weeks later, he's still in a coma and it's looking bleak.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/motorsport/9642007/Schumacher-unlikely-to-regain-all-faculties

There are fears Formula 1 champion Michael Schumacher may never wake up from his coma.

The 45-year-old has been in intensive care since receiving head injuries in a skiing accident in the French Alps on December 29.

He was placed into an artificially induced coma shortly after the crash to help his brain heal.

With no indication of how much longer Schumacher could remain in the coma, European media has been questioning whether the father-of-two could have apallic syndrome, a potentially permanent vegetative state.

Utterly tragic.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

Dr. Gary Hartstein, the former F1 doctor, has been writing about what is very likely going on with Schumacher. It's very in depth and ultimately very, very sad.

http://tinyurl.com/mmor625

Now remember, all we know with certainty about Michael’s injuries comes from the press conferences given by his care team. After explaining the how and why of evacuating the right-side extradural hematoma (on the Sunday) and then the left-sided intracerebral hematoma (on the Monday), the neurosurgeon let slip a VERY telling statement.

I’m almost quoting him here, translating from the French. He said “don’t think that we evacuated two hematomas and that’s it”. “Michael has lots of hematomas in his brain, on the left, on the right, and in the middle”.

Damn. See, the “middle” is where all the important stuff happens – awareness, arousal, control of blood pressure, respiration, swallowing etc. And the left – well that’s usually language. Etc etc. The neurosurgeon, intentionally or not, painted a rather catastrophic neurologic picture.

First off let me say that it is EXTREMELY unlikely (I’d honestly say virtually impossible) that the Michael we knew prior to this fall will ever be back.

 

[YankeeFan]

Seven-times Formula 1 motor racing world champion Michael Schumacher, who suffered serious head injuries in a December skiing accident, is making progress and showing signs of waking from an artificial coma, his agent said on Friday.

"Michael is making progress on his way. He shows moments of consciousness and awakening," Sabine Kehm said in a statement.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-michael-schumacher-accident-recovery-20140404,0,2815900.story