Tragic Story of incompetence by LSU football.

[Vol8188]

Normal person doesnt run get hit by 300 lb guys 50-70 a week either...

Getting hit by someone 300lbs didn’t cause his issue. I fail to see what you’re getting at here.

 

[BigOrangeMojo]

Getting hit by someone 300lbs didn’t cause his issue. I fail to see what you’re getting at here.

Football hits 50-70x a game. Has head issues. Obviously you run tests to make sure there's no clot, aneurysm, trauma, etc...

 

[bamawriter]

You don’t mri someone because they’ve been dizzy for less than 2 days

He was having spells for weeks.

 

[Vol8188]

Football hits 50-70x a game. Has head issues. Obviously you run tests to make sure there's no clot, aneurysm, trauma, etc...

Why would you assume clot? A clot in your brain is called a stroke. We’d know if he was having a stroke

Everything they did seems perfectly reasonable.

 

[Vol8188]

He was having spells for weeks.

Yes. That’s why they did imaging. You treat things. Then you wait to see how they respond to treatment. You don’t just jump to mri after a couple of days

 

[BigOrangeMojo]

Why would you assume clot? A clot in your brain is called a stroke. We’d know if he was having a stroke

Everything they did seems perfectly reasonable.

When you have a player with head issues and you have unlimited access to testing and you wait almost 6 weeks....

 

[05_never_again]

He didn't have a cough. He was having dizziness and vomiting. Classic signs of head trauma. So yes, it rated a head CT. Especially when you factor in he's a football player, where head trauma is common.

It's also classic signs of vertigo. If you read the lawsuit, you'd see that they did concussion testing the same day they first reported symptoms and ruled out a concussion/head trauma. It isn't like he was ignored by their medical staff and then a month and a half later said "Hey, maybe you should go to the hospital."

 

[05_never_again]

Football hits 50-70x a game. Has head issues. Obviously you run tests to make sure there's no clot, aneurysm, trauma, etc...

They did. Read the lawsuit (which is actually Brooks's side of the story).

 

[bamawriter]

Yes. That’s why they did imaging. You treat things. Then you wait to see how they respond to treatment. You don’t just jump to mri after a couple of days

No one is a saying it should have been "a couple of days." A couple of weeks would have been more than appropriate. More than a month is straight up negligent.

 

[Vol8188]

No one is a saying it should have been "a couple of days." A couple of weeks would have been more than appropriate. More than a month is straight up negligent.

5 weeks isn’t inappropriate

 

[Weezer]

It's also classic signs of vertigo. If you read the lawsuit, you'd see that they did concussion testing the same day they first reported symptoms and ruled out a concussion/head trauma. It isn't like he was ignored by their medical staff and then a month and a half later said "Hey, maybe you should go to the hospital."

It's classic signs of many things, the vast majority being head related. A head CT should have been a priority.

 

[xJesusx56]

If we did a CT of every healthy young adult who reported vomiting and syncope, we’d probably cause more brain cancer than we found

ER docs say “Hold my beer.”