Snow-mobiler, Caleb Moore, dies from brain complications after crash?

[Arbor Vitae]

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Has anybody been following that story about Caleb Moore, the snow-mobiler in the X-games who crashed and went to the hospital with a concussion? I read he ended up having bleeding around the heart from the snow-mobile hitting him in the chest. He then developed "brain complications" over the weekend and then just recently died. I can't find anywhere exactly what happened to him. What kind of brain complications could it have been? Would it have been a blood clot going to the brain, or what else can happen after "bleeding around the heart?"

 

[Stellar Clouds]

He also suffered from a concussion from the original injury. Perhaps he developed a subdural, or maybe he arrested post-op and suffered anoxic brain injury.

 

[calvnandhobbs68]

Yeah subdural would have been my guess.

 

[Stellar Clouds]

The ESPN article stated that he also had a complication involving his brain. So perhaps it wasn't a complication as a result of the "bleeding around the heart" but instead the original brain injury.

 

[Arbor Vitae]

The ESPN article stated that he also had a complication involving his brain. So perhaps it wasn't a complication as a result of the "bleeding around the heart" but instead the original brain injury.

I see. Most articles were pretty vague, so it's just been bugging me wondering what happened.

 

[Trastuz]

I see. Most articles were pretty vague, so it's just been bugging me wondering what happened.

Concurrent head trauma is probably most likely but could have been tamponade --> anoxic brain injury if it was related to his heart.

 

[girlonfire]

Middle meningeal artery rupture?

 

[NickNaylor]

Middle meningeal artery rupture?

Probs sup. mesenteric for sure.

 

[kwel]

He also suffered from a concussion from the original injury. Perhaps he developed a subdural, or maybe he arrested post-op and suffered anoxic brain injury.

Yeah subdural would have been my guess.

wouldn't they have easily caught a subdural before it killed him? assuming they were being vigilant of course

 

[KinasePro]

Concurrent head trauma is probably most likely but could have been tamponade --> anoxic brain injury if it was related to his heart.

This sounds about right to me. Those watershed regions are susceptible to HIE during global hypoxia which could occur 2ndary to tamponade.

 

[Rendar5]

Nothing in the reports suggests intracranial bleed. Generally, a doctor would've told reporters that he had bleeding in the head AND bleeding around the heart if that were the case.
Head Trauma, including concussion and diffuse axonal injury, is extremely worsened in the setting the setting of an event leading to brain hypoxia, such as traumatic tamponade or any hypotension inducing event.

 

[calvnandhobbs68]

wouldn't they have easily caught a subdural before it killed him? assuming they were being vigilant of course

Yeah they said "bleeding around the heart" tamponade would make more sense. I wasn't paying attention to the fact that the timeline was so long.

 

[Rendar5]

The other possibility is a proximal aortic transection or other aortic injury.