Its always the drunk crashers that give us drunk drivers a bad rep >:(
Poor guy getting down voted for a gold joke
Nice to see some things never change
Only 25% of accidents are caused by drunk drivers. #DriveDrunk #StopTheSoberDrivers
I think death would be preferable.
Wait, how isn't he dead? Aren't the nerves that make the heart and lungs do their thing get severed if the spine breaks at that point?
Organs can do a surprising amount on their own. Your heart will beat even without impulses from the brain, it just does much differently.
Not sure about the lungs, though. The
diagramdiaphragm does most of the work there. I don't know how it would act without impulses.Nah he apparently lived, just paralyzed from the shoulders down.
So much sadness and pain in one sagittal plane
Does this mean that he can no longer control his body below his neck? Can someone clarify the body condition?
This is an internal decapitation. Spinal cord completely severed at that disjunction. Best case scenario is quadriplegia. Much higher than this would have been fatal.
"3, 4, 5 keeps him alive."
Probably a stupid question; would they fuse the vertebrae together to avoid further damage or just leave it?
Yes, the patient went straight to surgery to stabilize the neck. However, the damage was already done and he will remain paralyzed.
I don't wish this shit on anyone. But I'm glad it was the driver and not an innocent person.
I'm no doctor, but something seems off
Any hope for some sort of recovery?
My guess is probably not, this is an internal decapitation guy is lucky to even be alive (if he is).
Not sure I would consider myself lucky surviving that. I think I'd rather die.
He lived. Couldn't feel anything shoulders down.
A few inches higher and life would have been incompatible with this guy.
