woah nelly...

it's like the episode on Grey's Anatomy where Izzy Stevens did the same thing...never thought it would be done in real life!

respect!

Country GP tells how he saved boy with home drill

A country GP has described how he saved a 12-year-old Victorian boy by using a household drill to bore a hole in the child's skull.

Following directions over the phone from a Melbourne neurosurgeon, Dr Rob Carson made a deep incision in the boy's head and removed a deadly blood clot.

Nicholas Rossi, 12, was not wearing a helmet when he fell off his bike late on Friday while riding outside a friend's house in Maryborough, 170 kilometres north-west of Melbourne. The boy hit his head on the pavement and was knocked out momentarily, but then stood up and said he was fine. But after he complained of a headache, his mother Karen, a trained nurse, took him to the district hospital, where he experienced spasms and periods of unconsciousness.

The local GP, Dr Carson, recognised the symptoms of bleeding on the brain and realised he had only minutes to drill a hole to relieve the pressure on the boy's brain. He obtained a drill from a maintenance room since the hospital was not equipped with neurological drills.

Over the telephone, Melbourne neurosurgeon David Wallace walked him through the procedure.

Nicholas was airlifted to Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital an hour later and was released on Tuesday May 19 - his 13th birthday.

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