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Neurosurgery specialist: No Sharon evaluation for at least 24 hours

Updated: 05/Jan/2006 11:47

Jacques Brotchi

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A Belgian-Jewish neurosurgical expert has said doctors will have to wait at least 24 hours before making an assessment of how well Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon will recover from the severe stroke he suffered Wednesday night.

The Israeli leader is currently being kept in intensive care after a lengthy seven hour cerebral operation at the Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital in Jerusalem

Professor Jacques Brotchi, a world renowned specialist in brain neurosurgery, told EJP: “One needs to wait 24 to 48 hours” in order to evaluate the situation. “It’s too early to say something,” he added.

“I don’t have the medical information and I only know it through what the media are reporting. Prime Minister Sharon has been maintained in artificial coma (called barbituric coma) in order to protect his brain from external interference,” Brotchi added.

“This is a manner to put his brain in suspended animation,” the head of the neurosurgery at Brussels’s Erasme Hospital said.

“Once the anaesthesia will be lifted, the doctors will be able to tell if Sharon has chances or not to recover. This will be crucial.”

“Of course it is very serious, he is in danger but one must wait a few hours,” Brotchi stressed.

“I know the Hadassah Hospital’s medical team headed by Professor Felix Umansky very well. The Prime Minister is in very good hands,” he said.