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Natasha Richardson - Movies, Music, Fashion, Sports - Posted: 21st Mar, 2009 - 4:11pm
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She died of "blunt impact" to the head. It seems that when she first fell they called an ambulance but she REFUSED for them to look at her. After one hour she started having headaches and the rest is history. This is what I just got fron FNC.
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I read there was no visible trauma, no blood, bumps, nothing. She was FINE right after it happened but the trainer that was with her insisted she needed to see a doctor because that's procedure. The place where she was skiing did not even require a helmet, to show you it wasn't a dangerous place/practice at all.
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I could not believe the province of Quebec does not have a helicopter system to transport patients! How is this possible in a first world country like Canada?
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| NEW YORK - As a steady stream of celebrities pay their last respects to Natasha Richardson, questions are arising over whether a medical helicopter might have been able to save the ailing actress. The province of Quebec lacks a medical helicopter system, common in the United States and other parts of Canada, to airlift stricken patients to major trauma centers. Montreal's top head trauma doctor said Friday that may have played a role in Richardson's death. "It's impossible for me to comment specifically about her case, but what I could say is ... Driving to Mont Tremblant from the city (Montreal) is a 2 1/2-hour trip, and the closest trauma center is in the city. Our system isn't set up for traumas and doesn't match what's available in other Canadian cities, let alone in the States," said Tarek Razek, director of trauma services for the McGill University Health Centre, which represents six of Montreal's hospitals. While Richardson's initial refusal of medical treatment cost her two hours, she also had to be driven to two hospitals. She didn't arrive at a specialized hospital in Montreal until about four hours after the second 911 call from her hotel room at the Mont Tremblant resort, according to a timeline published by Canada's The Globe and Mail newspaper. Not being airlifted directly to a trauma center could have cost Richardson crucial moments, Razek said. "A helicopter is obviously the fastest way to get from Point A to Point B," he said. After Richardson fell and hit her head on a beginner ski slope at the Mont Tremblant resort in Quebec, the first ambulance crew left upon spotting a sled taking the still-conscious actress away to the resort's on-site clinic.... |
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