Natasha Richardson RIP

[tbrown 26]

Farewell to a real beauty and condolences to Liam Neeson and Vanessa Redgrave.

And a cautionary tale for us all. She apparently fell and took a bump on the noggin on the friggin' bunny slope at a ski resort. Insisted she felt fine, was alert and talking, for about the first hour, then things started to go bad. A bump on the head is nothing to fool with. Wear your helmet.

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I heard about this this morning. Very sad.

All the more reasons you need to wear a helmet when on the slopes.

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[LisaH 0]

Very sad.

RIP

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[jimmytavino 16]

when the details about this sad sad event emerged,, i too thought...

WOW...strange..

THEN , I came to think.... COULD she have possibly suffered a "cerebral hemmorage event"... coincidently WHILE at the ski mountain..... ???and could the fall have been a result of THAT....????

rather than the other way around???


what a shame

jimmyT

[DJL 235]

As someone who's had more than their share of unhelmeted cranial collisions with solid object I'm baffled by how this turned so quickly. Anyone have a link about the actual injury, I haven't been able to find anything.

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[murrays 0]

I don't think anything definitive has been released, just speculation. Obviously some type of cranial bleed.

Just a complete tragedy. A day on the bunny hill, learning to ski, having fun and she winds up dying. Just goes to show you that you have to enjoy life as it happens as it can be a very fragile thing.

My condolences to her family who must be just devastated.

Murray

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I heard about this this morning. Very sad.

All the more reasons you need to wear a helmet when on the slopes. (emphasis added)

There is no shortage of ways to knock one's head at the DZ. Students and young jumpers especially should use head protection.

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[lawrocket 3]

I am myself very curious about the mechanism of injury. There are some weirdities. It doesn't seem like a subdural or even epidural hematoma - those usually take hours before they become critical.

The timeline could fit with the crash causing a vertebral or carotid dissection throwing an embolus, but the growing headache is not entirely consistent.

I'm really interested in the mechanism, and no information has come out on it tha I've seen

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[Jewels 0]

This article:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/03/18/brain.injury/index.html?iref=newssearch

mentions the "talk and die" syndrome. I don't think they've officially concluded that this is what happened, but it certainly seems to be part of the speculation.

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[lawrocket 3]

Autopsy report of epidural hematoma.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090319/ap_on_en_mo/obit_natasha_richardson

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[Racenic 0]

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NEW YORK – Tony-winning actress Natasha Richardson died of a brain injury after falling on a ski slope, an autopsy found Thursday. The cause of death was epidural hematoma (bleeding between the skull and the brain's covering)
An epidural hematoma is often caused by a skull fracture. The bleeding causes a blood clot that puts pressure on the brain. That pressure can force the brain downward to press on the brain stem that controls breathing and other vital functions, causing coma or death.

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Richardson said she felt fine after her spill but became ill later and complained of a headache. Doctors say sometimes patients with brain injuries have what's called a "lucid interval" where they act fine for an hour or more as the brain slowly, silently swells or bleeds.

What I would like to know is, Did Flying without treatment contribute to her Death. It's reported she flew to New York from Montreal right afterwards. Being that the injury created bleeding and pressure to the brain, Did the Air pressure (from flying) increase the bleeding and or the pressure to the brain and the brain stem, therefore was it an additional link in her untimely death?

Is there anyone who can confirm this? I would like to know especially since we fly for our enjoyment. (I know we are not at 30,00 feet plus) but want to be educated more in this type of injury.

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[lawrocket 3]

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Did Flying without treatment contribute to her Death. It's reported she flew to New York from Montreal right afterwards

Just a thought from me, but when I heard they moved her from Toronto to NYC, my initial thought was that she was already brain dead. She's a resident of the United States (maybe even citizen - I don't know). She lived in New York.

Getting a living person transported back across an international border is a far easier task than transporting a dead body - even if that person is hooked up to life support.

Just getting permits to haul a deceased person anywhre can be troublesome unless the person has been cremated.

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[squirrel 0]

while it is sad that this happened...how far should the helmet requirement go? i dont wear one jumping, or skiing. for that matter, no shoes sometimes. only one DZ i ever jumped at (quantum leap) made me wear my camera helmet. yes, its that old personal choice thing.if the logic is that you need to wear a helmet on the bunny slope, then i guess i should wear one all the time. I was 30 feet up in a tree, getting some dead branches down, helmet time? i am near the age she was, and at this point in life, i guess i have become the stubborn old man on some issues.

i know i'll get bashed for not being a helmet lover, but we already lived in a over regulated world. and, since the helmet law was enacted in california, when i ride, i seem to ride faster now....more insulated from the speed.

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[ladydyver 0]

it is really sad --- it will be interesting to see what shakes out with this accident and the use of helmets when skiing - i don't ski but insist that my son wears one when he does...that being said it is usually off of his head once he is out of my site.....maybe this will help him realize how serious this is.

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[tbrown 26]

i know i'll get bashed for not being a helmet lover, but we already lived in a over regulated world. and, since the helmet law was enacted in california, when i ride, i seem to ride faster now....more insulated from the speed.

[tbrown 26]

Just a thought from me, but when I heard they moved her from Toronto to NYC, my initial thought was that she was already brain dead. She's a resident of the United States (maybe even citizen - I don't know). She lived in New York.

[squirrel 0]

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i know i'll get bashed for not being a helmet lover, but we already lived in a over regulated world. and, since the helmet law was enacted in california, when i ride, i seem to ride faster now....more insulated from the speed.

Nah, what's to bash ? Inspite of this latest and tragic death, I'm still not for making people, at least not adults, wear helmets. I wear one myself and I would insist on my family wearing them. But it's not my business to go telling the rest of the world what they have to do to make me feel "safer".

wow...a rational person, in a mostly irrational world...what a pleasant surprise. thank you!

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