Baby Survives Internal Decapitation

[oneh2obabe]

In a remarkable achievement of modern medicine, surgeons have managed to reattach the head of a toddler that became separated from his neck in a severe car accident. But before your mind begins to run away with images, this was an internal decapitation; his head was not completely separated from his body. Regardless, that should not take away from the fact that this is some surgical feat.

The victim was 16-month-old Jackson Taylor who was in the car with his mother and sister when it crashed head-on with another vehicle at a staggering 110 kph (70 mph) last month. The sheer force of the impact was enough to cause his spine to detach from his head, but thankfully it didn't kill him. After reaching the operating theatre in Brisbane, Australia, the infant underwent 6 hours of surgery during which spinal surgeon Geoff Askin innovatively used wire and a piece of the boy's rib to graft his vertebrae back together.



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http://www.ktbs.com/story/30197130/todd ... capitation

[Fancy]

To be able to run and play after such a horrific accident is a miracle. It's mind boggling what the body can endure and what the medical community can accomplish. Wow.