Word: hematomas
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...outlook for a patient depends in part on acting fast: call 911 or drive the victim to the hospital; do not wait to reach your own doctor. The rest turns on the type of injury. Richardson died of an epidural hematoma, an accumulation of blood between the skull and dura, the tough tissue covering the brain. A subdural hematoma is blood between the dura and brain. Both injuries have a mortality rate of about 50%. Intracerebral bleeding, which occurs within the brain, is even more serious. "Patients get redlined to surgery in 15 to 30 minutes" if they have...
...champ. Johnson told fight doctors he felt fine but then he listlessly shuffled down the walkway to his dressing room, as though he were in some sort of trance. He collapsed and was rushed to University Medical Center in Las Vegas. He had suffered a subdural hematoma, or bleeding in the brain...