Schumacher’s Condition Improving Slightly after Second Surgery
Seven times Formula 1 Champion, Michael Schumacher, is showing some slight signs of improvement after a second operation at the University Hospital of Grenoble following his skiing accident on Sunday.
According to the doctors treating the 44 year old german, Michael Schumacher is showing some slight signs of improvement following a brain scan who is in a critical condition at the University Hospital of Grenoble after a skiing accident in Meribel on Sunday. Schumacher hit his head on a rock and was admitted to hospital later that day, doctors said he would certainly have died were it not for his helmet.
The good news was reported on Tuesday morning at a press conference at the hospital.
“Late [on Monday] evening a new brain scan was carried out and there was a slight improvement,” Jacqueline Hubert, the director general of the hospital, said.
“The scan allowed us to suggest we could have a new intervention [on the brain] and that took place overnight. A new scan was carried out this morning and this shows slight improvement.”
The doctors added that the procedure they carried out overnight, one designed to ease the pressure on Schumacher’s brain, was not one they had initially envisaged.
“We had a transitory improvement of inter-cranial pressure. Michael Schumacher’s inter-cranial pressure improved and we were able to carry out the scan without taking a risk,” one of the five doctors said.
“That scan showed a few signs that were relatively stable. There were no signs that implied there was a worsening. Talking to my colleagues, we felt at the moment that it was possible, taking into consideration his state had slightly improved, that we carried out a surgical intervention that we had not thought possible. It allowed us to treat in a more radical fashion to relieve inter-cranial pressure.
“This was carried out in the night. This allowed us to do a new scan and see new images and see the hematoma has been evacuated in a good fashion. We have seen a few signs to show the situation is better controlled than it was yesterday.”