The Neurosurgeon, Jeffrey Rosenfeld, couple of times in one month has to operate upon a number of bicyclists, who meet with grave accidents and in turn suffer terrible head injuries.
Almost all had been wearing helmets each time they rode their bicycles, and it is only after they were brought tohospitals that their helmets were taken off their heads.
The condition of such helmets in these cases is more often than not horrible.
In a majority of head injury cases, the result is pessimistic. Hemorrhage is often bad, which requires urgent surgery procedure, so as to ease blood clot. However, if there is brain swelling then the condition goes from bad to worse.
Severe head injury victims mostly succumb but even if they survive, they have to face life-long suffering.
Rosenfeld, the Supervisor at the National Trauma Research Institute's neurotrauma evidence translation committee at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, said that people suffering from brain swelling always have to face bad news and go through distress.
Considering this, a long-drawn debate has been on regarding if such bicycle helmets offer protection against head injuries and also that obligatory wearing of helmets in Australian states should remain in place.
Rosenfeld although is quite sure that helmets offer protection to the exterior parts of the brain but also, that if a person had to face serious-level injuries, then nothing helps.
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