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based on recent opinions expressed on this list....[and assuming this child really did have a critical lesion]...i suspect he was lucky to be living in Australia :-(

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Subject: Re: Australian doctor uses household drill to save boy

Would any US MD dare?

Louis N. Molino, Sr. CET
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On May 20, 2009, at 18:01, Charlene M Morris <cvmmorris at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> wow!!!
>
> cmm
>
> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 6:58 PM, Charles Brault <c_brault at yahoo.com> 
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> Australian doctor uses household drill to save boy
>> Provided by: The Canadian Press
>> Written by: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
>> May. 19, 2009
>> MELBOURNE, Australia- A doctor in rural Australiaused a household 
>> drill to
>> bore a hole into the skull of a boy with a severe head injury, 
>> saving his
>> life.
>> Nicholas Rossi fell off his bike on Friday in Maryborough, hitting 
>> his head
>> on the pavement, his family told The Australian newspaper in a story
>> published Wednesday.
>> By the time Rossi got to the hospital, he was slipping in and out of
>> consciousness.
>> The doctor on duty, Rob Carson, quickly recognized the 13-year-old 
>> was
>> experiencing potentially fatal bleeding on the brain and knew he 
>> had only
>> minutes to drill a hole through the boy's skull to relieve the 
>> pressure.
>> But the small hospital was not equipped with neurological drills - so
>> Carsongrabbed a household drill from the maintenance room.
>> A Melbourneneurosurgeon talked Carsonthrough the procedure by 
>> telling him
>> where to aim the drill and how deep to go and soon, a blood clot 
>> fell out,
>> relieving the pressure on the boy's brain.
>> "Dr. Carson came over to us and said, 'I am going to have to drill 
>> into
>> (Nicholas) to relieve the pressure on the brain - we've got one 
>> shot at this
>> and one shot only,"' said the boy's father, Michael Rossi.
>> Rossi was airlifted to a larger hospital in Melbourneand released 
>> Tuesday -
>> his 13th birthday.
>> Carsonwas modest about his feat.
>> "It is not a personal achievement, it is just a part of the job and 
>> I had a
>> very good team of people helping me," he told the newspaper.
>> Michael Rossi was more effusive.
>> "He saved our son's life," he said.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> http://health.lifestyle.yahoo.ca/channel_health_news_details.asp?news_id=18129&news_channel_id=1008&channel_id=1008
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