Natasha Richardson’s tragic death – a perfect example of our Socialized Healthcare to come

Want an example of what’s to come once Hussein Obama and Billary get their way with socialized healthcare?

Michelle Malkin found an interesting article. Dr. Cory Franklin wrote yesterday in the New York Post exploring whether Canada’s government-run health care system contributed to the tragic skiing death of Natasha Richardson. He writes:

Richardson died of an epidural hematoma — a bleeding artery between the skull and brain that compresses and ultimately causes fatal brain damage via pressure buildup. With prompt diagnosis by CT scan, and surgery to drain the blood, most patients survive.

Could Richardson have received this care? Where it happened in Canada, no. In many US resorts, yes.

Between noon and 1 p.m., Richardson sustained what appeared to be a trivial head injury while skiing at Mt. Tremblant in Quebec. Within minutes, she was offered medical assistance but declined to be seen by paramedics.

But this delay is common in the early stages of epidural hematoma when patients have few symptoms — and there is reason to believe her case wasn’t beyond hope at that point.

About three hours after the accident, the actress was taken to Centre Hospitalier Laurentien, in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, 25 miles from the resort. Hospital spokesman Alain Paquette said she was conscious upon reaching the hospital about 4 p.m.

The initial paramedic assessment, travel time to the hospital and time she spent there was nearly two hours — the crucial interval in this case. Survival rates for patients with epidural hematomas, conscious on arrival to a hospital, are good.

Richardson’s evaluation required an immediate CT scan for diagnosis — followed by either a complete removal of accumulated blood by a neurosurgeon or a procedure by a trauma surgeon or emergency physician to relieve the pressure and allow her to be transported.

But Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts is a town of 9,000 people. Its hospital doesn’t have specialized neurology or trauma services. It hasn’t been reported whether the hospital has a CT scanner, but CT scanners are less common in Canada.

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March 27, 2009 · Filed Under Socialized Heathcare

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4 Responses to “Natasha Richardson’s tragic death – a perfect example of our Socialized Healthcare to come”

Heritage Foundation: Myth Exposed - American Health Care System Not Perfect, but Superior to Socialized Health Care « Frugal Café Blog Zone on March 27th, 2009 12:59 pm

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coffee on March 29th, 2009 6:08 pm

the loss of Natasha Richardson makes me re-think my resistance to wearing a helmet while skiing
Dr. T on March 31st, 2009 2:44 am

If you want to see what government intervention does to health care look no further then what has happend tomammography–a precedure they seized in 1993. I blogged about it here: http://tedstumor.blogspot.com/2009/03/mqsa-mussolini-and-mammography.html

They ruined it with price controls and regulation. Our entire system faces the same fate under the current regime.
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