rfarren
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509586,00.html
Sounds weird... It was on a green, and didn't involve trees.
Sounds weird... It was on a green, and didn't involve trees.
It said she fell and hit her head and suffered a likely epidural hemorrhage. What's so weird? Happens all the time in automobile accidents.rfarren":2sodzyvm said:http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509586,00.html
Sounds weird... It was on a green, and didn't involve trees.
How, exactly, do we define "bad"? How did the reporters define "bad"? What does it matter how "bad" the fall was? Obviously, how ever she smacked her head, it was bad enough.rfarren":o47quu2w said:According to the articles it wasn't an very bad fall.
rfarren":16p8kbms said:For all intensive purposes Brain Dead is dead.
Sorry if this is ghoulish, but my wife used to work for an organ procurement network -- she said that there's a very short window before a brain-dead person's organs being to deteriorate, even though he/she is clinically alive.rfarren":287m9mxs said:"Tragic End", "Brain Dead" For all intensive purposes Brain Dead is dead.
Admin":lzbb3g49 said:rfarren":lzbb3g49 said:For all intensive purposes Brain Dead is dead.
That's "for all intents and purposes." :wink: Sorry to pick on you, but that's a pet peeve of mine, along with the misuse of "nauseous" instead of "nauseated." And FWIW, those reports of Richardson as "brain dead" are as yet unconfirmed. The reporting is all over the board right now.
“The situation is sort of mixed,” said Jasper Shealy, a professor emeritus at Rochester Institute of Technology who has been tracking skiing and snowboard fatalities since the 1970s. “We’re now at the point where roughly half the population wears a helmet, and we’ve seen no difference” in fatalities.
But helmets do seem to make a difference in the head-injury statistics: Mr. Shealy’s own research found a 35 percent reduction, and he said that other studies had found as much as a 50 percent reduction in head injuries.
“Typically, in the scenario that results in death, you need something more than a helmet to save you,” Mr. Shealy said.
Helmets have been shown to protect the heads of recreational skiers traveling at a rate of 12 to 17 miles an hour, but typically not at higher speeds.
The most common arguments against helmets is that can be cumbersome and restrict vision, and that they give wearers a false sense of security, perhaps encouraging more reckless behavior.
“I’d be surprised if it didn’t lead to that,” Mr. Shealy said. “But that’s not a sufficient reason not to wear one.”
Troy Hawks, the spokesman for the National Ski Area Association, said it had adopted this policy: “We highly recommend that folks wear helmets,” he said, “but our position is that people should ski and snowboard as if they are not wearing one.”
Nice, you post about a tragic accident, then get distracted.rfarren":2h4kvor3 said:They really have raised the prices dramatically though!
jamesdeluxe":2tkcbqst said:Nice, you post about a tragic accident, then get distracted.
How about a little respect for the brain dead?
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Richardson died of an epidural hematoma -- a bleeding artery between the skull and brain that compresses and ultimately causes fatal brain damage via pressure buildup. With prompt diagnosis by CT scan, and surgery to drain the blood, most patients survive.
Could Richardson have received this care? Where it happened in Canada, no. In many US resorts, yes.