In severe blunt trauma, as in Max's enormous skull fracture (7 1/2 inch saggital fracture from AR), and very high spinal cord injury (top 2 cm of spinal cord from AR), the
blunt trauma is the source of the cardiovascular collapse--
not respiratory arrest.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8198295
Outcome of cardiovascular collapse in pediatric blunt trauma.
OK I misunderstood? I was thinking that we were being told that the moment the brain injury occured that the heart stopped.
That was where I got confused!
It can happen even hours later.
So do I understand correctly Max could have been SOB at the time of the 911 call perhaps even have said Ocean... and it escalated prior to EMT's arriving on the scene?
OR are you thinking Max was asysatolic (not speaking or breathing)
from the time 911 was called?
After reading the EMT report my view has cleared somewhat.
Brain injury was #1 on the list .
Funky accidents occur... that's a fact.
BUT RZ, LE, EMT's, ER DOCS, THE ME, AND EVEN FORENSIC SPECIALIST ETC... HAVE NEVER HAD A MEETING OF THE MINDS TO SETTLE HOW THIS ACCIEN OCCURED.
As a mother being told a different version by every person from the moments prior to the accident until over a year later can you blsme her for thinking her child was attacked/murdered???
As a mother and nurse, I would need a straight line from point A to point B.
With that I could walk away and celebrate my child's life.
Dina has been given a SPIROGRAPGH to attempt to decipher!
moo