Head Injuries Of Phineas Gage And Sergeant Dan Powers

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Phineas Gage and Sergeant Dan Powers both had head injuries involving the piercing of the skull but received different treatments from the other. Dan Powers underwent a more advanced version of Phineas Gage’s medical treatment. On the other hand, Phineas Gages survival was based more on luck than science. Phineas Gage, the man who had a metal rod through his brain, received less advanced treatment for his injury. According to “Phineas gage” paragraph 16, “He cleans the skin around the hole. extracts the small fragments of bone, and gently presses the large pieces of skull back into place. He looks inside Phinneas's mouth.” “Then Dr. Harlow dresses the wound, pulling the loose skin back in position and taping it in place.” This shows what treatment Gage received and how his doctor did it. Dan Powers, on the other hand, is a different story. …show more content…

“Soldier Surveills Knife in Head,” Paragraph 8 states, “Powers fellow soldiers jumped into action. They loaded him into a Humvee and sped off to their home base. There, medics carefully wrapped his wound, covering the knife with a Styrofoam cup.” This is just the beginning of the medical attention he was given. Paragraphs 19-25 claims “Teff pulled the knife out”. Powers began bleeding profusely. Everybody in the room thought I wasn’t going to make it, Powers said. Thousands of miles away in Washington, Dc, Lt, Col, Dr. Rocco Armonda was pulled over on the side of the hallway... his advice to the team in Iraq: Close up the Sergeant and get him to the National Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland immediately... Once at Bethesda, Powers was rushed into surgery. The neurosurgical team coiled the cardioid artery and performed cranioplasty on Power’s skull.” This proves that Power received a more advanced surgery than Gage. But was their survival based more on luck than

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