A 24-year-old construction worker survived after a 6-foot metal bar fell
from above and pierced his head, doctors said Friday.
Luiz Alexandre Essinger, chief of staff at Rio de Janeiro's Miguel Couto
Hospital, said doctors successfully withdrew the iron bar from Eduardo Leite's
skull during a five-hour surgery.
'He was taken to the operating room, his skull was opened, they examined
the brain and the surgeon decided to pull the metal bar out from the front in
the same direction it entered the brain.' Essinger said.
He said Leite was conscious when he arrived at the hospital and told him
what had happened and that Leite was lucid and showed no negative consequences
after the operation.
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This tomography scan released Thursday,
Aug. 16, 2012 by the Miguel Couto hospital, shows the skull of 24-year-old
construction worker Eduardo Leite pierced by a metal bar in Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil. Doctors say Leite survived after a 6-foot metal bar fell from above him
and pierced his head. Luiz Essinger of Rio de Janeiro's Miguel Couto Hospital
Friday told the Globo TV network that doctor's successfully withdrew the iron
bar during a five-hour-long surgery. (AP Photo/Miguel Couto Hospital)
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'Today, he continues well, with few complaints for a five-hour-long
surgery,' Essinger said. 'He says he feels little pain.
The accident and surgery took place on Wednesday.
Ruy Monteiro, the hospital's head of neurosurgery, told the Globo TV
network that Leite escaped by just a few centimeters from losing one eye and
becoming paralyzed on the left side of his body.
