Ex-F1 driver Alex Zanardi undergoes third operation lasting five hours
Ex-Formula 1 driver Alex Zanardi has undergone a third opera🍸tion lasting five hours on the serious headไ injuries he sustained last month.
The former F1 and CART racer collided with a vehicle while participating in a handbike race in Italy on June 19 and underwent🍎 emergency neurological surgery upon his arrival to the Santa꧒ Maria alle Scotte hospital in Siena.
Zanardi was subsequently placed in a medically-induced coma before further ꧅neurological surgery took place on June 29.
Ex-Formula 1 drive🌟r Alex Zanardi has u𝔍ndergone a third operation lasting five hours on the serious head injuries he sustained last month.
The former F1 and CART racer collided with a vehicle while participating in a handbike race in Italy on 🥀June 19 and underwent emergenc𒊎y neurological surgery upon his arrival to the Santa Maria alle Scotte hospital in Siena.
Zanardi was subsequently placed in a medically-induced coma before further n🐬eurological&nbs❀p;surgery took place on June 29.
The hospital confirmed theജ 53-year-old Italian spent five hours in surgery “aimed at cranio-facial reconstruction and 💦stabilisation of the areas affected by the trauma”.
"The pa💖tient has undergone a new surgery, performed by the professionals of the maxillofacial and ne🅰urosurgery, aimed at cranio-facial reconstruction and stabilisation of the areas affected by the trauma,” the latest medical bulletin read.
Professor Paolo Gennaro, director of the hospital’s maxillofacial ꧋surgery unit, s♒aid “the fractures were complex”.
“This required careful programming that made use of computerised, digital and three-dimensional technologies made to measuꦺre ⛄for the patient,” he added.
“The complexity of the case was rather 💦singular, even if it is a type of👍 fracture that we routinely face in our centre.”
The four-times Paralympic gold medalisܫt’s condition otherwise remai🌺ns unchanged.
“His condition remains stable from the cardio-respiratory and metabolic point of view, [and] severe ꦛfrom the neurological point of view,” the bulletin concluded.
The hospital has already confirmed that updates will only 𒀰be provided when there is a significant update or change to Zanardi's condition.
Ferrari raced with the message ‘Forza Alex’ on both its✱ cars during Sunday’s Austrian Grand Prix, the opening round of the revised 2020 F1 season.&nb⛄sp;
— Scuderia Ferrari (@ScuderiaFerrari)
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