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Thu May 21 22:01:57 BST 2009

There we go again. 

Sanjay Gupta

--- On Thu, 5/21/09, khumar huseynova <khumarhuse at yahoo.ca> wrote:

> From: khumar huseynova <khumarhuse at yahoo.ca>
> Subject: Re: Australian doctor uses household drill to save boy
> To: trauma-list at trauma.org
> Date: Thursday, May 21, 2009, 11:50 AM
> absolutely amazing. I know from
> experience that this is also part of practice in developing
> countries-use whatever in hand to help out.
> KH
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> Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 15:58:33 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Charles Brault <c_brault at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Australian doctor uses household drill to save
> boy
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> 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. 
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