The blue is now sedated and is not in danger of life. Operated in the neck after the fall during the exercise to the rings at the Universiade of Essen, he gave positive signals to the awakening
Lorenzo Bonicelli has been awakened by the pharmacological coma and has given positive signals. The blue gymnast, seriously injured in Essen’s universiade and immediately operated on the cervical vertebrae, is now in intensive care and its conditions for awakening are stationary and is not in danger of life. Now he is sedated, at his side the family, while his teammates managed to visit him in the hospital before returning to Italy. The president of Federginnastica, Andrea Facci, who will be in Essen in the next few hours to continue to follow the postoperative course is also coming.
The words of the Father
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“I live in total apprehension. The intervention went well. We have to wait.” So Bonicelli’s father commented on the incident: the gymnast’s family is now in Germany, where he has already found an apartment in view of a stay that promises to be rather long. The Federation spokesman then specified that Bonicelli “will complete the subsequent rehabilitation phase in Italy”. It cannot be excluded that this can take place in Lecco, his city. In Costa Masnaga, in fact, there is the specialist center of Villa Beretta, at the forefront in neuro-rehabilitation (this is where Alex Zanardi had been transferred after the handbike accident).
the console
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The Italian consul in Cologne, Luis Cavalieri, also close to the family, who explained how the athlete reported the fracture of the fifth cervical vertebra, with consequent compression of the spinal cord caused by an edema. The diplomat then reassured about Bonicelli’s conditions, which “is not in danger of life and has also opened their eyes. The doctors temporarily suspended the pharmacological coma to check for any irreparable neurological damage, which fortunately seem excluded”. However, he continued, “the doctors had to resume sedation, because there is an extensive edema caused by the vertebral lesion. Now we must wait for it to reabsorb, and then evaluate the possible effects on the marrow”.
dynamics
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Lorenzo Bonicelli, a 23 -year -old athlete of the Italian Gymnastics Team, fell ruinously during the exercise to the rings, reporting an injury to his neck immediately appeared of serious entity. The blue remained motionless on the platform and was promptly rescued by the health staff of the Federation, then urgently transported to the University Polyclinic of Essen. Here he was operated on the cervical vertebrae and, after being awakened by the pharmacological coma, he is now in intensive care and “is not in danger of life” according to LaPresse reported by a hospital spokesperson. The team was immediately collected by the competition and the athletes, after visiting his partner in the hospital, returned to Italy.
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