Doctor Uses Household Drill on Boy's Head

Posted by Miss Cellania in Medicine on May 20, 2009 at 8:44 am

12-year-old Nicholas Rossi fell off his bike in Maryborough, Victoria, Australia. His parents rushed him to the local hospital, where Dr. Rob Carson saw the child’s brain was bleeding. The hospital did not have the equipment for brain surgery, so he ordered a drill from the maintenance department in order to open the skull and relieve the pressure.

Michael Rossi says his son would have died if Dr Carson had not acted quickly.

“He came out and he saw us and he said he’s only got one shot at it, and one shot only,” he said. “[He said] ‘I’m going to drill into Nick’s head and try and relieve the pressure’.”

“And he said if we can relieve the pressure he’s going to reach Melbourne via air ambulance in a lot better shape than if we don’t try something.

“Dr Carson told me all he can remember saying is, ‘Get the Black and Decker’.”

Carson consulted with Melbourne neurosurgeon David Wallace by phone, who talked him through the procedure. Rossi was up and walking around within a couple of days, and has since made a full recovery. Link

 
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Now this is a manly man’s ad. Here’s an advertisement for Makita power tool by Bennie Du Plessis of Saatchi & Saatchi in South Africa – if you look closely, the "pixels" are 20,081 carefully drilled holes!

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