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...outlook for a patient depends in part on acting fast: call 911 or drive the victim to the hospital; do not wait to reach your own doctor. The rest turns on the type of injury. Richardson died of an epidural hematoma, an accumulation of blood between the skull and dura, the tough tissue covering the brain. A subdural hematoma is blood between the dura and brain. Both injuries have a mortality rate of about 50%. Intracerebral bleeding, which occurs within the brain, is even more serious. "Patients get redlined to surgery in 15 to 30 minutes" if they have...
...champ. Johnson told fight doctors he felt fine but then he listlessly shuffled down the walkway to his dressing room, as though he were in some sort of trance. He collapsed and was rushed to University Medical Center in Las Vegas. He had suffered a subdural hematoma, or bleeding in the brain...
While the hip injury was not very serious, Galbraith's use of a blood-thinning drug to treat another medical problem led to complications: Galbraith developed a hematoma, which required immediate surgery...
...autopsy revealed the cause of death to be an acute subdural hematoma, or blood clot, resulting from a head injury suffered sometime during the game, Patricia B. Elder, spokesman for the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, said yesterday. A blood clot in the brain usually causes physical collapse within "minutes or hours," she added...
Despite injuries to three scrum regulars, the Crimson overpowered and out-executed the big but often clumsy Rams. As second row "Doc" Halliday, nursing a hematoma on the knee, said from the sidelines, "URI plays 'intimidation rugby,' but our guys are not the types who are intimidated...