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Originally Posted by Samarta
I saw on ESPN where the docs said he would never walk again. That it is still a life threatening catastrophic injury....
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It WAS a life threatening injury .....the docs were being closed lipped about the potential of this possibility of recovery as all docs do with dire illness.
Every day I start a conversation talking about what COULD be with severe illness like this. No family is ever going to be upset with you if you tell the truth about the possibilities and then the patient does better than expected.
The amazing aspect of this story is that these neurosurgeons trusted their intensivists (critical care docs like myself) to TRY a therapy for one disease that is essentially brand new for one disease (cardiac arrest) and allow it to be used for the same postential gains (minimizing if not arresting injury taking place after the truama) with spinal cord trauma!!!
Thes intensivists are heroes of the highest level because they just may have laid the ground work for us to save thousands of lives in other disease states.