Sounds like they trephined his skull to keep swelling from damaging his brain. Fear of subdural swelling.
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Given your knowledge in this area, what would be (on average) his recovery time ?
So they took out part of his skull - that will require months for that to heal - JMHO
“Sounds like they trephined his skull to keep swelling from damaging his brain. Fear of subdural swelling.”
probably more than trephining; they do something called “hinge surgery”, which i understand is where a large piece of skull is cut loose around three sides, but the fourth side only partially cut to allow a continuing blood supply ... they do that only when the stroke is severe enough to produce brain swelling, so despite all the happy talk about a “full recovery”, this was a severe stroke ... this guy isn’t going to be up and around any time soon, if ever ...