Sharon Rushed to Operating Room as New Bleeding Detected
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“Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was rushed to the operating room at Jerusalem’s Hadassah University Hospital, Ein Karem, on Friday, to undergo emergency surgery intended to relieve intra-cranial pressure. Outside experts said the prognosis was not good.”
“The increase in cranial pressure was discovered during a CT scan Sharon underwent in the morning. The brain scan also showed some bleeding in his brain, a slight expansion of one of his brain lobes and a rise in his blood pressure, said Hadassah director Dr. Shlomo Mor-Yosef.”
“Aides of Sharon, who is fighting for his life after suffering a severe stroke and cerebral hemorrhage this week, rushed to the hospital to be with him during the surgery, his second in two days.”
“‘It was decided to bring the prime minister to the operating room in order to deal with these two issues, to drain the bleeding and to decrease the intracranial pressure,’ said Mor-Yosef.”
“A doctor who is not on Sharon’s medical team, said on Friday he believes the surgical treatment the prime minister is undergoing includes draining the brain from the accumulation of fluids in an attempt to relieve the intra-cranial pressure.”
“The medical term for Sharon’s condition is severe hydrocephalus. The doctor said this complication is to be expected, and is caused by the massive hemorrhage in Sharon’s brain.”
“The more ominous information to emerge from the prime minister’s CT scan, however, is the renewed bleeding, said the doctor.”
“‘The first operation was already purely heroic,’ on the part of the surgeons, he said, adding that ‘most patients are not even operated on in such a condition.'”
Hospital Director: Letting Sharon go to Negev Farm Was Negligent
Excerpts; (Please Note At Least 11 Areas of Possible Negligence.)
“Several senior doctors raised a host of questions Thursday about the standard of treatment Ariel Sharon has received over the last two weeks, with the director of a large hospital telling Haaretz that according to the media reports on Sharon’s medical treatment, he fears ‘there was indescribable negligence.'”
“The questions cover the period from Sharon’s first stroke two weeks ago to his arrival Wednesday night at Jerusalem’s Hadassah University Hospital, Ein Karem, where he is being treated for a severe stroke and cerebral hemorrhage. They pertain to the supervision over Sharon’s physical state, following the blood-thinning medicine he received after his first hospitalization.”
“‘Yitzhak Rabin was not wearing a bulletproof vest that could have protected him from the murderers’ bullets, and now, 10 years later, Sharon was not given the required medical treatment that could have saved him,” the hospital director said. “Israel has not learned the lesson from Rabin’s murder, and thus lost two prime ministers because of inadequate protection – one from weapons, the other from illness. I cannot understand how the prime minister could have been sent to stay in an isolated farm, more than an hour away from the hospital he was supposed to be treated in, two weeks after a stroke and one night before a heart procedure he was afraid of.‘”
“Several questions have been asked this week regarding the standard of treatment Sharon has received: [1] How much time elapsed from the moment Sharon told his son, Gilad, he wasn’t feeling well to the arrival of his personal doctor at Sycamore Ranch? [2] Why wasn’t there a doctor at his side since the first stroke, especially on the eve of the catheterization? [3] Why wasn’t Sharon taken to the hospital by helicopter? [4] Why was he taken to the distant hospital in Jerusalem, rather than to Be’er Sheva’s Soroka Medical Center? [5] To what extent did the treatment Sharon received after the first episode account for the hemorrhaging?”
[6]”Some of the questions suggest that Sharon and his aides’ desire to show that the prime minister had returned swiftly to his daily routine resulted in inadequate treatment and supervision.”
“[7] The senior doctors asked why Sharon’s physicians had not insisted that he take a significant rest after the first stroke, as they would have done with any other patient. [8] They asked to what extent political and media considerations were involved. [9] They also asked why the catheterization was not performed earlier.”
“Other questions refer to [10] why it took about two hours from the time Sharon felt unwell at his ranch to the time he arrived at the hospital emergency room at about 11 P.M., and [11] why he wasn’t taken to Soroka for preliminary treatment at least .”