Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi Terry:
You are right they can linger on for months even a year with a
subdural. However that is unlikely anymore, with the CT scans etc. But
it can and has happened in the past. It depends on the bleed,
absorption, and pressure on the brain.
Sue
S
>
> >I don't understand what you are saying here. A person can die within
> >hours, minutes for that matter from a subdural. Just as they can linger
> >on for days.
>
> Or weeks, or months, more than a year.
>
> >It depends on the bleed, /w the resultant pressure on the
> >brain.
>
> The prosecutors claimed that the 3 or 4 weeks of healing of the skull
> fracture shown in photographs did not exist. At worst that leaves
> reasonable doubt. The au pair was convicted because they convinced the
> jurors that Matthew Eappen died as a result of a skull fracture the day he
> was taken to the hospital. He lingered for some days and they claimed the
> healing (which they earlier denied existed at all) was only during that time.
>
> >I too wondered about the wrist fx.
>
> >> Now Mary was only a nurse and we all know nurses know nothing. :-} But she
> >> did save a life over one of these damn things. Because she didn't listen to
> >> higher authority.
> >
> >I do take exception with "nurses know nothing". <BG>
>
> :-}
> Best, Terry
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