Roofing can be dangerous
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Roof painter impaled by 60cm rod through his head
A man has survived a brush with death after a nightmarish accident saw a steel rod impale his head.
Roof painter Michael Richard's miraculous survival was hanging in the balance when he fell from the ground floor roof of a two-storey home.
Michael tried to stand up after hitting the ground but struggled, before discovering he had landed on a steel bar that was sticking out of the ground which pierced through his neck and into the back of his skull.
Co-workers acted quickly, using bolt cutters to free the rod from the ground, allowing the Texas roof painter to stand up with about 60cm of the rod still sticking out of his head,
Pitchers at the link. I wanna see the x-rays.
Wow.
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What, that bar went straight through his head.
Surely it must have damaged parts of the brain, no?
@Klaus said in Roofing can be dangerous:
Surely it must have damaged parts of the brain, no?
Indeed. However, what parts are "non-critical?" That's why I'd love to see the x-ray and CT.
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@Klaus said in Roofing can be dangerous:
Surely it must have damaged parts of the brain, no?
Indeed. However, what parts are "non-critical?" That's why I'd love to see the x-ray and CT.
@George-K said in Roofing can be dangerous:
@Klaus said in Roofing can be dangerous:
Surely it must have damaged parts of the brain, no?
Indeed. However, what parts are "non-critical?" That's why I'd love to see the x-ray and CT.
How well do we understand the structure and function of the brain? I guess we can say that damaging certain regions is fatal or causes loss of this-and-this function, but I guess any damage has an effect, even if it's not immediately noticeable. This thing is so densely connected that it's hard to imagine that some regions have basically no function.
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@George-K said in Roofing can be dangerous:
@Klaus said in Roofing can be dangerous:
Surely it must have damaged parts of the brain, no?
Indeed. However, what parts are "non-critical?" That's why I'd love to see the x-ray and CT.
How well do we understand the structure and function of the brain? I guess we can say that damaging certain regions is fatal or causes loss of this-and-this function, but I guess any damage has an effect, even if it's not immediately noticeable. This thing is so densely connected that it's hard to imagine that some regions have basically no function.
@Klaus from looking at the trajectory of the rebar, it looks like it entered just to the left of the trachea and esophagus, narrowly missing the left internal jugular vein and carotid artery.
Then, it looks like it probably went just outside the oral cavity and exited the skull in the posterior-inferior cerebellum. The cerebellum is the structure associated with coordination and balance. If I recall, there’s a lot of plasticity in the cerebellum so, after he recovers he might have minimal disability,
I would be curious to see how they managed his airway.
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