“As part of the diagnostic-therapeutic evaluations carried out by the team that takes care of the athlete – reads the bulletin issued by the health facility – a control CT was performed. This diagnostic examination showed an evolution of the patient’s state which made it necessary to resort to a second neurosurgery. After the operation, which lasted about 2 and a half hours, Alex Zanardi was again hospitalized in the intensive care unit where he remains sedated and intubated: his conditions remain stable from the cardio-respiratory and metabolic point of view, severe from the neurological point of view , the prognosis remains confidential “.
To provide an additional explanation is the health director Roberto Gusinu: “The intervention carried out represents a step that had been hypothesized by the team. Our professionals will evaluate the evolution of the situation day by day, in agreement with the family the next bulletin it will be released in about 24 hours. “
Zanardi had undergone a first head operation on the evening of the accident, which took place on June 19 around 4:50 pm on the state road that connects Pienza to San Quirico D’Orcia. To operate it was Professor Giuseppe Oliveri. The champion, during the cycling race Obiettivo Tricolore organized by his sports club, had lost control of the handbike and had crashed into the wheel of a truck in the other lane of the road. A video, shot by a freelance journalist who was following Zanardi, seems to completely exonerate the truck driver.
On the dynamics of the accident, the prosecutor of Siena ordered an expert opinion which will have to evaluate all the possible causes of the skidding: human error, the structural failure of a handbike wheel, the imperfect state of the road surface.
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