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His agent spoke on Sunday evening. The hospitalized writer, stabbed several times last Friday, would now enter the road to recovery. With, however, a vital risk that cannot be completely ruled out.
This is encouraging news that has come from the author’s agent Salman Rushdie, in a statement sent to the washington post, Sunday, August 14. The author, victim of several stab wounds, in particular to the neck and abdomen, on Friday during a conference in the North of the United States, would no longer be on artificial respirators, and would slowly enter a recovery phase. , despite a physical condition still involving several risks.
Multiple trauma treated
The state of the writer attacked with a dozen stab wounds only 3 days ago did not however allow us to establish a favorable prognosis so far. “These are polytraumas, with several lesions that directly affect his vital prognosis” confirms Dr Gérald Kierzek, emergency physician and medical director of Doctissimo.
- Clinically, Salman Rushdie presented a priori lesions in the neck, with a hemorrhagic risk linked to the carotid artery as well as a respiratory risk in the event of an affected trachea.
- At the level of the abdomen, where the author was also affected, a vascular risk is also at stake with the presence of the various arteries: aorta, vena cava. There is also talk of the liver being damaged.
- The wounds on the arm also led to a risk of bleeding and severed nerves.
- Finally, functional lesions still persist, such as the lesion in the eye, which the author could lose, according to the latest information given.
An encouraging improvement
Helicoptered as quickly as possible to the hospital in Erie, Pennsylvania, where he has been treated since, the writer was taken care of and operated on for abdominal and cervical lesions with the intervention of surgeons and resuscitators, intubated and ventilated by artificial respirator. The recent announcement of his spontaneous breathing and his resumption of speech is a positive sign: “ This means a priori that the vital prognosis is no longer engaged and that the situation has evolved favorably in 3 dayssays Dr. Kierzek, but not that there is no more risk. The lesion of the liver is particularly to be monitored, because it can still evolve. Then there remains the long and difficult problem of functional recovery and rehabilitation. His condition is still serious. does he temper
Threatened by an Iranian Fatwa since 1989 for the publication of his Satanic Verses a year earlier, writer Salman Rushdie was stabbed by a young Lebanese American on Friday night. The man is now charged with “attempted murder and assault” by the American courts.