Michael Schumacher fights for his life after skiing accident
Retired Formula One driver Michael Schumacher sustained a head injury on Sunday, Dec. 29, in a skiing accident at the Meribel Alpina resort in the French Alps and is reportedly in critical condition. Schumacher suffered a brain hemorrhage in the fall.
Seven times F1 World Champion Michael Schumacher is currently in hospital in Grenoble (France) after suffering a head injury whilst skiing in the Alps.
This is the place where he fell:
Gary Hartstein, a former Formula One trackside doctor said (via The Guardian): "The brain's plasticity makes prognosis impossible to pronounce definitively for quite some time. Weeks to months."
Information is still coming in and at the moment it appears too early to give clear details as to the state of health of the German, who is due to celebrate his 45th birthday on January 3rd, WROTE Jennie Gow, F1 BBC Radio presenter in her blog.
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If you are just joining us, Michael Schumacher remains in a critical condition in hospital after his head hit a rock in a skiing accident yesterday.
Doctors this morning said that it is too early to make a prognosis, but that had the 44-year-old not been wearing a helmet, he would no longer be with us.
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Here’s more expert information on the kind of injury Schumacher has, this time from Christopher Chandler, of the London Neurosurgery Partnership.
"An intra-cranial haematoma is a blood clot, which causes swelling and pressure on the brain," he said.
"The scenario may be that he had a blood clot in his brain that required immediate removal, which would explain the surgery.
"By bilateral lesions, I suspect they mean contusions or bruising to the brain. That bruising of the brain, which you can see on a scan, causes ferocious swelling and that is really serious.
"(Cerebral) contusions are often the most significant injury. Once you remove the clot, the swelling carries on and bruising precipitates and propagates that swelling.
"If you have a brain injury with sufficient severity to cause a coma, that indicates a very serious situation. The longer a patient is in a coma, the less likely they are to make a full recovery.
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An official update was given of Schumacher’s status at 10 a.m. Monday morning, but doctors could only confirm that the racing legend remains in a serious condition:
Michael Schumacher’s condition is "extremely serious" - but doctors will not speculate on his prospects of survival and recovery.
— Eurosport.com EN (@EurosportCom_EN) December 30, 2013
Michael #Schumacher suffered "grave head trauma" that needed "immediate" surgery, doctor says http://t.co/F7u3bVS00P
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) December 30, 2013
#Schumacher condition could change "hour-by-hour", would not have survived without helmet doctors say
— Paul Kelso (@pkelso) December 30, 2013
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