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Why don't we put all the MS threads together in one place, makes it easier to follow.
 
markjay said:
Hope he makes full recovery just as Top Gear's Hammond did at the time.

I am at an Alpine ski resort as we speak , I suspect the general atmosphere here might get a bit sombre when the news start spreading.
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Why?

Skiers and those that partake in adrenalin sports get injured and killed every day. What's different about this one?

If I was there, it's wouldn't bother me at all. The trick would be to find where he fell and show him how it should be done. ;)
 
WDB124066 said:
Why don't we put all the MS threads together in one place, makes it easier to follow.
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The bin? :D

He's fallen and had a tap on the head, so as is often the case, the hospital have subdued him to allow the brain a recovery time.
Once He's up and about again, can we put the hankies and cotton wool in the bin with the threads?
 
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Ha ha. LOL.

Only on MB Club can we end up with multiple threads on the same news topic AND then an argument as to who posted first.
 
Be better if people checked first ay!

Feeling very sad for his family, imagine being his son and having to deal with that...
 
Dieselman said:
Ha ha. LOL.

Only on MB Club can we end up with multiple threads on the same news topic AND then an argument as to who posted first.
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Who's arguing...Grober posted first, then me, then the other one. Only on MB Club do we have Dieselman.:p
 
No he's on loads of other forums too.
 
Anyway back on topic- My original post implied -- wrongly:o that things were probably OK but it has since emerged that he despite walking off the hill initially he had lapsed into unconsciousness before being transferred to the major hospital in Grenoble. :( He underwent some form of surgical procedure- either the implanting of a sensor to monitor brain pressure or a more comprehensive operation to relieve brain pressure swelling which involves removal of part of the skull-- either way he is now apparently in a coma either induced or as a consequence of the injury. Condition deteriorated last evening and now described as critical??
 
I think initial reports looked ok, then he deteriorated, maybe he had a 'bleed'....certainly would have been worse if he had not worn his helmet...

New reports today state he is fighting for his life....the next 24hrs will be critical....hope he pulls through.
 
According to news reports,he's fighting for his life and is in an induced coma.
I am sure we all wish him well.
 
Some medical information.

10.30am Dr Gary Hartstein is the former FIA Medical Delegate for the F1 World Championship and he has been tweeting and writing on Schumacher's injuries. The blog below states the following:

Quote We’re all going to be hearing a lot about intracranial pressure over the next hours and days, so I thought it would be useful to understand a bit about it. Here we go. The brain is enclosed in a rigid closed box. Since the volume of the box is fixed in adults, the addition of any extra “stuff” won’t take up more space, it’ll increase the pressure. What kind of “stuff”? Well in this case, at least yesterday, the extra stuff was a blood clot. This clot now has crammed itself into the same snug volume as the brain, kinda like when your kids jump into bed with you. The pressure goes up. Treatment is obvious – take out the clot!
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10.40am Here is the Reuters take on that earlier press conference which, above all, seemed to confirm that the situation is every bit as serious as feared.

Former Formula One champion Michael Schumacher was battling for his life in hospital on Monday after a ski injury, doctors said, adding it was too early to say whether he would pull through.

"We can say that his condition is life-threatening," Jean-Francois Payen, head anaesthetician at the CHU hospital in the eastern French city of Grenoble told a news conference.

"For the moment we cannot say what Michael Schumacher's future is," he added.

Seven-times Formula One world champion Schumacher was admitted to hospital on Sunday suffering head injuries in an off-piste skiing accident in the French Alps resort of Meribel.

Neurosurgeon Stephan Chabardes said an emergency brain scan carried out on Schumacher, 44, had revealed internal bleeding, and injuries including contusions and lesions. He said they had operated a first time to treat the internal bleeding.

Doctors said Schumacher had been placed in an artificial coma but, contrary to an earlier French media report, said they had not carried out a second operation during the night and were not planning any further interventions at this stage.
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10.55am Christopher Chandler, of the London Neurosurgery Partnership, has told the Press Association that the haematoma and bruising the F1 champion suffered could cause "ferocious swelling".

"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.

"You can't say that they won't recover, and you can't say they won't be brain- damaged, but an injury such as bilateral bruising, which means on both sides of the brain, is very serious, and can be very dangerous.

"Brain swelling takes a number of days to reach its peak. The brain has a rigid unyielding box around it - the skull - which allows no room for growth, making swelling very, very dangerous.

"And once that injury occurs it's a vicious circle where a little bit of swelling causes more pressure, which causes more swelling, more pressure, and it starts to accelerate and affect vital parts of the brain.

"When that happens, you are in really deep trouble, but this man received probably the best possible care that you could imagine in the circumstances.

"He had the brain injury and within minutes a team of medics were there and they airlifted him to hospital. Within half an hour he was assessed and being flown to the neurological unit in Grenoble."
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Bad news, my heart and thoughts are with him and his family.Wish him quick and full recovery...
 
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The response is excellent in France when these things happen...

I was stranded last year after going out in bad weather...
The lady on the phone sounded like a bored call centre operative but I had help within a few minutes.

This was at a time when all of the mountain team were rushing around closing the entire ski area down due to a sudden and fierce snow storm...

Thought are with him but Im sure MS will be fine, he is still fairly young and fit.
 
The "induced coma" bit gives me hope- I've known a few bikers kept in comas for quite a while after brain trauma (resulting from pretty much instant deceleration caused by cars pulling out on them), and making apparently complete recovery.

Hang on in there Michael!
 
It is a remarkable sign of the times that the terrible crash he has had is on the mountain not on the track - a testament to the immense improvements in safety of Formula 1. Fingers crossed.
 
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