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Medical Experts Weigh in on Bob Saget’s Cause of Death
From The Epoch Times By February 13, 2022
Natalie’s Commentary: Not to be ignored another expert, Dr. Gavin Britz, the chair in neurosurgery at Houston Methodist, also questioned the autopsy report’s findings.
Dr. Britz said to the NY Times, “This is significant trauma,” And added, “This is something I find with someone with a baseball bat to the head, or who has fallen from 20 or 30 feet.”
That is a pretty significant finding and opposite to the Orange County Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Joshua D. Stephany said he died of blunt head trauma.
Dr. Stephany’s conjecture continues to make assumptions by saying, “It is the most probable that the decedent suffered an unwitnessed fall backwards and struck the posterior aspect of his head. The manner of death is accident,” the report said.
Dr. Megan Ranney, an emergency room doctor at Brown Emergency Medicine, suggested the autopsy report is incomplete.
Then there was the inference made by Dr. Neha Dangayach, the head of neuro-emergencies told the NY Times that usage of several drugs is a “very dangerous” cause of falls among older people. Saget was only 65 years old. He wasn’t a man in his 80’s. The autopsy report said Saget had COVID-19 and there were signs of Klonopin, a commonly used benzodiazepine, and Trazodone, an antidepressant, in his system. No illegal drugs were detected. If Saget had COVID-19, why was he performing or were the tests inaccurate showing he previously COVID-19? ~ Natalie
Several medical experts weighed in on an autopsy report that was released describing actor Bob Saget’s cause of death, with several saying that details about his death are perplexing.
Saget, 65, was found dead in an Orlando, Florida, hotel room last month, and this week, Orange County Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Joshua D. Stephany said he died of blunt head trauma.
“It is the most probable that the decedent suffered an unwitnessed fall backwards and struck the posterior aspect of his head. The manner of death is accident,” the report said. His family earlier said that he hit his head and decided to sleep it off before he was found dead.
But Dr. Jeffrey Bazarian, an emergency physician and concussion expert at the University of Rochester Medical Center said that such an extensive injury that was described in the report would not have likely been ignored by Saget, formerly a star of “Full House” and “America’s Funniest Home Videos.”
“It’s like an egg cracking,” he told the New York Times. “You hit it in one spot, and it can crack from the back to the front.” The injury, Dr. Bazarian said, would have left him confused or possibly unconscious.
An autopsy report that was released alongside Stephany’s statement said Saget had posterior scalp abrasions, subgaleal hemorrhage (blood that forms between the scalp and skull), discoloration of the eyelids due to the fracture, subdural hematoma (a buildup of blood on the surface of the brain), and subarachnoid hemorrhage (bleeding in the space that surrounds the brain).
Another expert, Dr. Gavin Britz, the chair in neurosurgery at Houston Methodist, also appeared to question the autopsy report’s findings.
“This is significant trauma,” Britz told the NY Times. “This is something I find with someone with a baseball bat to the head, or who has fallen from 20 or 30 feet.”
In making reference to the report showing that Saget had fractures to the bones in the eye socket, known as the orbital bones, Britz said that “if you fracture your orbit, you have significant pain.”
“I doubt he was lucid,” Dr. Bazarian added, “and doubt he thought, ‘I’m just going to sleep this off.’”