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Category: Celebrity News Author : Duncan Riley Posted: March 19, 2009
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Epidural Hematoma confirmed as cause of Natasha Richardson death


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New York City medical examiner’s office announced Thursday afternoon that an autopsy had confirmed that actress Natasha Richardson had died of a Epidural Hematoma.

An Epidural Hematoma is a type of traumatic brain injury in which a buildup of blood occurs between the dura mater (the tough outer membrane of the central nervous system) and the skull. The condition can be deadly, and is present in 1-3% of all head injury cases.

Although the death has been ruled accidental, reports suggest that had Richardson obtained medical assistance immediately after her fall, the chances of her dying may have been less so. The problem was that Richardson suffered from talk and die syndrome, in that there were no immediate symptoms of a serious issue in the immediate hour after the fall.











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3 Archived Responses to “ Epidural Hematoma confirmed as cause of Natasha Richardson death ”

  1. Douglas V.
    Mar 19, 2009

    Let this be a lesson to people who get in an auto accident and think nothing happened. It's always better to get checked out if the impact was significant.

  2. R K Ripperger
    Mar 20, 2009

    The day after Richardson's death, Thursday, I tripped in a parking lot and had 3 'Good Samaritans' immediately phoning 911 and staying with me until medical & police authorities arrived. I had really smacked the area just above my left ear on the concrete and of course her death brought this home in a very personal way to all of us.

    I did sign the release to refuse treatment at the hospital. Had I known that it was a matter of just going in for a “20 minute CT scan” as I've just read on another site, to search for a blot clot within the first hour, I would have gone to the hospital.

    Fortunately for me (so far – 20 hours later,) I'm just sore and achey. I'm 66 and had just left a T'ai Chi class! I hope and pray that I have no blood clot traveling in my system but I leave that in His hands. I've read that 1 – 3% of head trauma develops these problems. This is my second fall and head strike in the past 3 years, in which I've also had both knees replaced and a back laminectomy – I'm not letting Middle/Old Age get the better of me!


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