How is Pedro Severino? Find out the health status of the player who almost had brain death after a serious car accident
Pedro Severino 's case was shocking. At 19 years of age, the Bragantino player was on his way to training when the car he was in crashed into the back of a truck on the Anhanguera Highway in São Paulo. The impact of the crash caused the athlete to suffer serious head injuries and was taken to the hospital with a head injury.
Admitted to the ICU, Pedro's health condition was so serious that a protocol to confirm brain death was initiated. But it was soon interrupted by a cough. "He coughed, interrupt the trauma protocol because it is not brain death," warned neurosurgeon Romeo Boullosa, in an interview with "Fantástico" this Sunday (15).
From then on, Pedro was transferred to a private hospital and underwent four surgeries to reconstruct his skull, which received a prosthesis fixed to the skull by small titanium plates.
After two weeks in hospital, Pedro began to react and interact with those around him. The player wrote, started playing video games and even kicked a ball into the goal in his hospital room, making an impressive recovery.
Will Pedro Severino have a normal life after the accident?
According to doctors, this is still a question without a definitive answer. "We cannot say how much he will recover his autonomy, how much he will be close to the person he was before the accident," observed Gil Teixeira, coordinator of the ICU at the Unimed Hospital in Ribeirão Preto where the athlete was hospitalized.
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