Jules Bianchi - Etat de Santé par Gary Harstein
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L'état de santé de Jules Bianchi demeure stable après son réveil, mais son absence de conscience est toujours très préoccupante quelques semaines après son accident.
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Last week’s Jules updateNOVEMBER 25, 2014/23 COMMENTS
First of all, as man of ou have ointed out, we once a ain owe a dee thank you to Jules’ parents.
and sincere
Obviously this is good news, at a few levels. Being closer to home, to friends and
family, is immensely important.
Knowin that Jules is breathin on his own is also ver ood news. Not so much ro nosticall ; rather because it’s one less o en door to otentiall lifethreatenin infections.
The press release also says that the “medically induced coma” has been ended. Remember, ALL patients with severe head injury are anesthetised. This is to allow them to be ventilated by a respirator, and to better control many of the patient’s parameters during the first crucial days.
Durin the acute hase rou hl s eakin from ICU admission until the intracranial pressure/brain swelling was brought under control) if the intracranial pressure rises too high, and the usual means fail to bring it down, this anesthesia (itself a medically induced coma) is deepened significantly, as a lastditch effort to control the pressure. This was done, as you remember, for Michael Schumacher. It was also almost certainly carried out for Jules. This deep anesthetic is usually only used for a few da s u to a week or two rarel more . Then the back round “routine” anesthetic iweaned. The s eed of this s also slowl atient’srocess de ends on the circumstances and how withdrawal of sedation is tolerated. This was resumabl done prior to Jules being transferred back to Nice.
But he is still unconscious.
The fact that Jules is no longer being sedated, is no longer receiving anesthetic dru s to maintain a state of PHARMACOLOGIC coma, but remains unconscious at almost two months post injury, is obviously of great concern. But his is perfectly compatible with the clinical course of a patient with severe diffuse axonal injury
who was unconscious on hospital admission.
While statisticall the situation is fairl dire, statistics are ust that–numbers. Let’s wait, support the Bianchis in any way we can, and constantly hope things get better.
Sorry for the delay in posting this. Lots of things going on, and just could not find
time to write.
