Loughner smiles as he comes to Arizona court to face charges of shooting Giffords; She has fluid on brain. PHOENIX — Rep.
Gabrielle Giffords has a buildup of fluid on the brain, a potentially serious condition that’s keeping her in intensive care, officials said yesterday. After days of stunning good-news reports on the wounded Arizona congresswoman’s recovery from a crazed gunman’s attack, officials said yesterday there would be no update on her condition until she is moved to a rehab hospital. Doctors at Memorial Hermann Texas Medical Center Hospital in Houston said Giffords has been given a tube to drain cerebrospinal fluid, which is building up and putting pressure on her brain.
The hospital gave no details, but said Giffords, who was shot in the forehead, would continue to receive therapy “until her physicians determine she is ready for transfer.” Meanwhile, shooter Jared Lee Loughner smiled grotesquely as he walked into an Arizona courtroom to face arraignment on federal charges of trying to kill Giffords and two of her aides. Burns set the next hearing for March 9.
Jared Loughner Pleads Not Guilty In Arizona Shooting. PHOENIX — The suspect in the shooting of Rep.
Gabrielle Giffords smiled and nodded but didn't speak as he appeared in court Monday and his lawyer provided the 22-year-old's first response to the charges: a plea of not guilty. In the two weeks since the deadly attack that killed six outside a Tucson grocery store, Jared Loughner's hair – shaved in the mug shot that's become an enduring image of the tragedy – has grown out slightly. The Tucson resident wore an orange prison jumpsuit and glasses, and his wrists were cuffed to a chain around his waist as eight U.S. marshals kept watch in the packed Phoenix courtroom and gallery above. Loughner faces federal charges of trying to assassinate Giffords and kill two of her aides. More charges are expected. Investigators have said Loughner was mentally disturbed and acting increasingly erratic in the weeks leading up to the attack on Jan. 8 that wounded 13.
Clarke has not responded to requests seeking comment. Medicine: What surgery did Gabrielle Giffords receive after being shot in the head. Gupta: What helped Giffords survive brain shot. CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent Dr.
Sanjay Gupta is a practicing trauma neurosurgeon and associate chief of neurosurgery at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. Rep. How did Gabrielle Giffords survive a shot in the head? 9 January 2011Last updated at 21:37 By Katie Connolly BBC News, Washington Two-thirds of people shot in the head never make it to hospital Very few people survive being shot in the head at close range, but all indications are that Gabrielle Giffords is one of the lucky few.
Doctors are cautiously optimistic about her condition, but are reluctant to speculate on her recovery. The swift response of people on the scene - emergency workers and medical staff - has been credited with saving her life in the first instance. Decompressive craniectomy. Glasgow Coma Scale. GCS was initially used to assess level of consciousness after head injury, and the scale is now used by first aid, EMS, nurses and doctors as being applicable to all acute medical and trauma patients.
In hospitals it is also used in monitoring chronic patients in intensive care. The scale was published in 1974 by Graham Teasdale and Bryan J. Research Paper: Hemicraniectomy. These folks go without a big piece of their skull for several months.
If you're paying attention, that means... yes... there's not a whole lot protecting their brains. As you could imagine most of them wear helmets during this time. Also, some of them actually have the piece of their own skull surgically placed inside their abdomen so that the skull tissues can be kept alive before the get their skull surgically put back in! Working with these patients gave us a unique opportunity as cognitive neuroscientists. Most of my research uses EEG to examine attention and memory processes.
Removing Part of Skull Makes for Better Brain Scans. Removing a chunk of the skull can make way for stronger, clearer signals from a common method of monitoring brainwaves.
The skull-free electroencephalography could make neural prostheses like bionic arms or eyes less invasive. “It’s notoriously hard to have a long-term electrode implanted in the brain,” said University of California at Berkeley neuroscientist Bradley Voytek, lead author of the study to be published in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. So if you can get around that by just having a small hole drilled into the skull, that would be very helpful.” Doctors sometimes treat patients who have suffered severe head trauma, such as gunshot or knife wounds, with what is known as a hemicraniectomy. Voytek: Hemicranicetomy Supplementary Figure 1. Patients with no skull are a window on brain activity. I’ve just clocked a stunning experiment, shortly to be published in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, that recorded brain activity from patients who had part of their skull surgically removed for several months and had only flaps of skin between their brain and the outside world.
The operation is called a hemicraniectomy and is often used when the brain swells or the pressure builds up inside the skull to the point where it is damaging the brain. "Manley GT"[au] AND *craniectomy - PubMed result.