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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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 Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 4:33 pm Post subject: Boy's feet amputated after slide mishap |
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Boy's feet amputated after slide mishap
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Boy's feet amputated after slide mishap
Jul. 11, 2006. 05:51 PM
CANADIAN PRESS
MONTREAL � Surgeons had to amputate the lower legs of a seven-year-old Quebec boy after they became stuck in a submerged pipe at a waterslide park near Montreal.
Quebec provincial police say Alexis Auclair may have been sucked into the pipe in a basin at the base of the waterslide Monday afternoon.
�We believe that he was completely sucked into the pipe, right up to the pump. . . and that he hit the turbine,� said police spokesman Ronald McInnis.
�We�re talking a distance of seven metres in a 20-centimetre diameter pipe,� he added.
�He was sucked up in the tube,� said witness Frederik Chr�tien, an employee of the campground at St-Pie, about 50 kilometres east of Montreal.
�When he got out, he was missing a foot and the other was attached by just a little skin.�
Police say Auclair was apparently flushed out when the pump was stopped.
A lifeguard and another camper rescued the child. His heart had stopped but his vital signs returned when he was given mouth to mouth resusitation.
Dr. Louise Caouette-Laberge, a plastic surgeon at the Ste-Justine�s hospital where the operation took place, said surgeons had no choice but to amputate Auclair�s legs below the knees.
�It is always a difficult decision to accept that you�re not able to reconstruct. . . but beyond that, the decision was not that hard because we had really no options,� Caouette-Laberge said.
�Just being able to keep this child alive is fantastic,� she added.
Dr. Marie-Andree Cantin, an orthopedic surgeon, said Auclair should be able to go back to a �close to normal life� with the help of a prosthesis.
�Most likely he�ll be able to return to school in the fall and do pretty much everything he was able to do before,� Cantin said.
�There might be a few more months of rehab, but kids cope well with a situation and they improve fast.�
Police say the perforated plastic cap which normally covers the pipe was found at the bottom of the basin.
Denis Arcand, the manager of the campground where the waterslide is located, said in an interview he checked Sunday evening and the white cap was in place.
�That cap retains all the leaves and pieces of glass that would fall in the pool so they don�t go in the pump,� Arcand added.
He also said a lifeguard had told the boy several times not to play in the basin but Auclair ignored her.
�He was supposed to get out right away and she (the lifeguard) had to tell him twice to get out,� Arcand said. |
Sort of scary... |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 5:43 pm Post subject: |
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| That reminds of me of one of the lawsuits with which John Edwards started his career. A swimming pool in a motel lacked a safety part (which would have cost less than a dollar), and a 7 year old girl was trapped and had her intestines sucked out. During the 04 campaign Republicans were busy deriding it as the "jacuzzi case". |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Sad story. It happened in Canada, which makes me think it's less likely to turn into a lawsuit, but it's still a possibility. |
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periwinkle
Joined: 08 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 10:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Oh my God. That's disturbing. Freak accident. I'm going to a water park this summer, but something like that (and the swimming pool pump accidents) seem to only happen to kids. Have you guys ever been in a wave pool and gotten too close to the grates at the front? Freaky~ |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 11:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Time to ban slides! |
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red dog
Joined: 31 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 12:23 am Post subject: |
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| This is horrible. Definitely not a "mishap." |
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