Hockey Player Survives Sliced Carotid

That lucky hockey player in the middle is Richard Zednick. He is being helped off the ice after sustaining one of the worst Celebrity Illness injuries we have ever reported.

According to several sources, Zednik was circling the net behind the play and skating into the corner when Olli Jokinen was upended by Sabres forward Clarke MacArthur. Jokinen fell headfirst to the ice, and his right leg and skate flew up and struck Zednik directly on the side of the neck, slicing his right carotid artery.

While several news sources are reporting that the injury nearly hti his jugular vein, we in the medical industry know that the high pressure pulsatile flow of the carotid artery is a much more dangerous vessel to traumatize.

Zednick suffered significant blood loss and managed to skate almost the entire length of the ice before basically collapsing into his trainer’s arms.

The brave puck head was rushed to Buffalo General Hospital where he is currently recuperating in the SICU after surgery to repair the artery.

2008-02-13