Alex Zanardi it is stable, remains in a pharmacological coma and hospitalized in intensive care at the hospital in Siena, after the new maxillofacial and neurosurgical intervention to which he underwent for the cranio-facial reconstruction and the stabilization of the areas affected by the trauma reported following the accident of 19 June last. Ansa reports it.
Monday’s operation lasted about five hours, reported the Tuscan hospital. Zanardi remains sedated, mechanically ventilated and its cardio-respiratory and metabolic conditions are stable.
The neurological picture remains serious. The doctors’ bulletins, in the absence of significant news on his condition, continue to be suspended, as agreed with the athlete’s family.
The professor Paolo Gennaro, who operated the Paralympic pilot and champion, expressed himself after the operation: “The fractures were complex, and the operation required careful programming that made use of computerized, digital and three-dimensional technologies, made to measure of the patient. The complexity of the case was rather singular, even if it is a type of fracture that we face routinely in our center “.
As soon as conditions permit will be reduced the amount of sedation to check if and how Zanardi will react from the neurological point of view upon awakening from induced coma.
OMNISPORT | 07-07-2020 17:06
