Surprised I didn't see any topic on this.
In a coma and already had 2 ops since the skiing accident yesterday.
In a coma and already had 2 ops since the skiing accident yesterday.
Formula One legend Michael Schumacher is now reportedly "responding to instructions" as he is very tentatively brought out of his intensive coma.
Reports in France have said Schumacher has “blinked” as medics begin the gradual and very difficult process of bringing him back to consciousness.
Schumacher has now undergone a number of neurological tests since Monday and has responded "positively", according to “very reliable sources” cited by French newspaper L’Equipe.
The 45-year-old, who suffered traumatic brain injury in his near-fatal skiing accident on December 29 in Meribel, France found himself in the artificial coma up until the point that medics decide to ‘gradually awaken’ him.
The medics have now begun the process of ending his coma and slowly but regularly reducing the dosage of anaesthetic drugs he was reliant upon as his brain is given further time to heal.
Schumacher blinked during the 'first stage' of brain tests, according to the French daily newspaper with the publication "100 per cent sure" that its report is entirely correct.
According to L’Equipe: "After gradually reducing the sedation of the patient, the team of Professor Emmanuel Gay [the medic overseeing Schumacher’s treatment] has been doing neurological tests since Monday. During this first stage, the patient blinked.
"Schumacher appears to show this type of reawakening,” it added.
(BERLIN) — Michael Schumacher’s manager says the Formula One great is no longer in a coma and has left a French hospital where he had been receiving treatment since a skiing accident in December.
Manager Sabine Kehm says in a statement that Schumacher has left the hospital in Grenoble “to continue his long phase of rehabilitation.” The statement did not say where the seven-time F1 champion was taken or give any details of his condition.
Kehm adds: “For the future we ask for understanding that his further rehabilitation will take place away from the public eye.”