Posted on 12/07/2009 4:53:48 PM PST by La Enchiladita
When Tiger Woods was brought to the Health Central Hospital in Ocoee, Fla., his condition was more serious than previously reported. According to a person with knowledge of Woods’ hospital admission, the star golfer had to be admitted directly to the hospital’s intensive care unit, where he was immediately intubated and his breathing stabilized.
Also, there’s clarification about the police interview with Woods’ neighbors, who called 911. At the time of the 911 call, neighbor Jarius Lavar Adams told dispatchers that Woods was asleep on the lawn, snoring. “Although the body can snore in any state of unconsciousness, it’s unlikely he was snoring,” said the source. “That was the sound of an airway that wasn’t stable. That’s part of the reason there was an intubation when he got to the hospital.”
After Woods underwent treatment, he was extubated, then immediately released home. One physician from the hospital said that discharging a patient directly to his home after being admitted to the ICU was “highly unusual.” The doctor, who did not treat Woods, said standard protocol “usually involves some sort of step-down — if your condition is serious enough to be admitted to ICU, you don’t go straight home. It points to some extreme privacy measures being taken for that decision to be made.”
Earlier Monday, a report from the Florida state Attorney’s office showed there was a request made for an investigative subpoena that would request blood results from Health Central Hospital. The request, which was ultimately denied, quotes a witness at the scene as saying Woods drank alcohol earlier in the day and was prescribed Ambien and Vicodin, and that impairment was suspected because of the careless driving that resulted in the crash.
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Where are we now? Is this 116?
In this day and age everything will eventually come out. There are too many vultures out there willing to pay big bucks to some hourly paid employee who witnessed certain events including what happened at the hospital.
Celebrities are extremely naive if they think they can hide things from anybody anymore.
Hmmmm...I said this on the very first TW thread—booze+ambien.
Right again!
He was treated for iron toxicity.
>> That was the sound of an airway that wasn’t stable.
...or maybe a golf club rammed so far up your kazoo by an angry spouse that it’s poking you in the diaphragm?
>> He was treated for iron toxicity.
How do they treat that? With an emergency pingectomy?
Against Medical Advice
When the patient removes himself from the hospital
Oh yeah, I remember that terminology from my healthcare days.
He did get out of there in one big hurry, and I’m still wondering about Tiger not having shown his face for over 10 days and the possibility of injuries sustained.
He had to undergo a serious and painful Nikeoctomy.
Does that mean we can expect to see B. Hussein 0bama's birth certificate before the next election? Or ever?
He was taken to intensive care because of his massive recto-cranial insertion.
That happens when your wife cuts your unit off and shoves it down your throat.
Eric Schmitt probably has the footage.
Emergency pingectomy...LOL
I wonder if a hospital room was set up in his home. The police never got to see him, and he hasn't been seen since then. Somebody called in a big favor in order for the prosecutor not to approve the subpoena for medical records.
Tiger’s case got “special handling” from the get-go, that’s what I have noticed, getting around the law in broad daylight so to speak.
I guarantee you if I was drinking “earlier in the day” pulled out of my driveway at 2 Am, hitting 2 stationary objects and needed to go to the ICU, the cops would not ask before they cuffed me and searched my home. Must be good to be a celebrity!
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