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Natasha Richardson, 45 years old, died today after suffering a fall to her head during a beginners ski lesson. See CNN.com
According to the article, she had fallen on her head and seemednperfectly fine, getting up under her own power and talking and joking win ski patrol. Ski patrol examined her and found no sgns of head injury but insisted she rest and see adoctor. She was transferee to a hospital in new York where she later died.
This is a tragic situation but a wonderful learning oppertunity. Emts and paramedics need to learn the s/s of closed head injury,and their potential fatal progression from a seemingly ok patient to a dead one.
According to the article, she had fallen on her head and seemednperfectly fine, getting up under her own power and talking and joking win ski patrol. Ski patrol examined her and found no sgns of head injury but insisted she rest and see adoctor. She was transferee to a hospital in new York where she later died.
This is a tragic situation but a wonderful learning oppertunity. Emts and paramedics need to learn the s/s of closed head injury,and their potential fatal progression from a seemingly ok patient to a dead one.