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Aussie GP does brain surgery with household drill
The astonishing procedure took place after Nicholas Rossi, 13, fell off his bike in the small rural town of Maryborough in Victoria and hit his head.He was not wearing a helmet, and the impact knocked him momentarily unconscious. The boy was kept under observation, but one hour later, he started drifting in and out of consciousness. The injury was the same that recently led to the death of actress Natasha Richardson after a skiing accident. The hospital was not equipped with a surgical drill. Instead, Dr Carson had to use the next best thing - a household drill found in the hospital's maintenance cupboard. He disinfected the drill and, under the guidance of a Melbourne neurosurgeon over the phone, used it to bore into Nicholas's skull to release the blood clot. Nicholas was released from hospital on Tuesday. Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-05-20 |
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