Surgery 'might be necessary' for Stig Broeckx following Baloise Belgium Tour crash
Condition of Lo🅠tto Soudal rider mon🌳itored by the hour
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lotto Soudal have updated the current condition of its rider 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Stig Broeckx who remains in an non-induced coma following a crash at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Baloise Belgium Tour caused 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:by two motorbikes. The Belgian suffered a fractured eye socket, a bruised lung and bleeding in the brain from the accident which occurred 65km into sta🌊ge 3 of the race and involved 10 other riders. Broeckx was the most seriously injured.
Team doctor Servaas Bingé provided an update on the 26-y🌠ear-old via a team press release.
"Constant monitoring and tests showed that the intracranial pressur🌊e has slightly increased, but within acceptable limits. During the next 48 to 72 hours the increase ♛or decrease of the intracranial pressure will be decisive for further treatment," Bingé explained.
"If the intracranial pressure increases, surgery might be necessary. A decrease of the pressure would be a positive sign. The bleedings in ꦍthe brain have stabilised."
Read more on this story
Riders react💯 to motorbike crash incident at Baloise Belgium Tour
Baloise Belgium Tour ꦦgoes on, but without Lotto So꧂udal
Belgium Tour stage 3 abandoned after motorb♐ikes cause big crash
Broeckx in a non-induced coma after motorbike incident at Bౠaloise Belgium Tour
Bingé added that&nb🐲sp;Broeckx's condition is monitored by the hour and in good hands with the Aachen hospital staff.
"The condition of Stig needs to be monitored every hour and the neurosurgical team of the hospital is consulted for the treatment. The secondary injur🍌ies – fracture of the eye socket and bruised lung – don't have a determining influence at tℱhe moment," he added.
The latest race conten🔴t, interviews, features, rev♔iews and expert buying guides, direct to your inbox!
Earlier in the season, Broeckx 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:was hit by a medical motorbike during Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne, suffering 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:a fractured collarbone and was conseq🌃uently forced to miss the remainder of tꦿhe spring classics.