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The survival rate of a gunshot wound to the head, as Arizona Rep Gabrielle Giffords suffered yesterday, is about 5%, and 3% of those who do survive carry lasting neurological deficiencies, such as loss of memory loss or motor skills, reports Fox News. The next three to four days are most critical, says a Fox News doctor. Doctors first open the skull, look for bleeding, and cauterize blood vessels. "Patients are kept under anesthesia for three to four days to monitor brain swelling, which is one of the complications of this surgery," explains the expert.
If the bullet grazes the tip of one of the brain lobes, the victim has the greatest chance for survival, and a bullet through one hemisphere still offers a reasonable chance. "[T]he farther from the center of the brain, the greater the chance of survival," reported Slate in a 2007 article about a slaying in Wisconsin. "The gravest bullet trajectories cross from one side of the head to the other, striking the center of the brain along the way." Doctors said yesterday they were "optimistic" about Giffords' chances for recovery.
Originally posted by hotbakedtater
reply to post by Ben81
I opined that starhitshnaz may have been a typo, starhitsInaz could be what was meant, or not.
But it is also opined both the stars acct and the classitup acct belong to the shooter.
Originally posted by loam
Don't forget there is a second assailant still at large...
Originally posted by loam
Don't forget there is a second assailant still at large...
Originally posted by windword
The little girl who was born 9/11/01 and died on 1/8/11 1+8=9 9/(11), She was 9. Weird coincidence?
Originally posted by kinda kurious
reply to post by Fractured.Facade
I can confirm that. CNN just said it was the cab driver who dropped him off.
Quite a rabbit hole as are most of these things. Odd ZERO mention of family or current friends.