https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jeremy-renner-critical-stable-condition-035114571.html
is this story spin for a coverup?
Critical But Stable condition and is with family, hope he recovers.
shareNo, he lives in the Tahoe region, there was a huge storm this weekend that dumped feet of snow, and somehow he was run over by his own home snowplow. A doctor applied a tourniquet at the scene, and that BTW is very bad news, a badly applied tourniquet can mean the loss of a limb and it's only done these days if the alternative is bleeding to death on the spot.
This is a very serious case, nobody would send out a lifeflight helicopter during a storm unless things were pretty terrible, and I hope they got him to a kickass trauma center. By all accounts, he's going to need one.
That's terrible to hear.
shareYeah, it's pretty damn bad, the more reliable reports make it sound like one leg was very badly injured, and that he's at a ICU in Reno and having at least one surgery. I've also heard that the snowplow tore an arm and a leg clean off, or that he's dead, but you know what kind of crazy rumors float around the internet whenever a new story hits the news.
He isn't at a Level 1 Trauma Center, the closest one would be in Sacramento and there's one in Vegas, but he seems to be in Reno. However, that may be because the weather has made medical transport difficult or dangerous, a series of big-ass winter storms have been moving through Northern California and Nevada, and more to come. Which is great for those of us that will need running water in the future, but not for anyone who might need to get to a trauma center.
You said it was a doctor who applied the tourniquet so it was probably applied properly. Even so, what would be the alternative? Bleed out? Better to loose a limb than to bleed to death.
shareIf a doctor applied a tourniquet to his leg, I have to assume the leg was so badly injured that the alternative was bleeding to death on the spot.
I have to assume that his leg injury or injuries are pretty nasty, and I see nothing on the news about that. But as long as he's breathing on his own and talking, well, things could be a lot worse.