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One of the things that's really important is when you take this bone out, you want to make sure that you're protecting the brain underneath. lift that bone right out of there. and had is the area where the brain is actually allowed to swell. the brain is coming out of here. and this is key to reducing that swelling. and the last bit was just finding those areas of the brain that are clearly no longer alive. usually where the bullet came in and out and just clean that up. try to lower the chance of infection. the key thing is you don't chase it into the brainment we don't try to get every littl...

The brain, unlike other organs of the brain, if it starts to swell, it really has nowhere to go. it can only go down wards and that is a hernation. you make holes like that one and giving access to the brain here and one over here which is just behind the eye. this is a pretty classic place where you make a hole and try to remove a large chunk of bone. that's the first part. and the second part is simply to try and connect the holes. you want to get as much bone off here as possible so that the brain has the maximum area to sort of swell. it is getting nice and hot. the key is to protect the b...

giffords. >> he came up and asked if he could talk to her and then he was barging through. >> 15 to 20 gun shots. some people running and screaming. it was gabriel giffords. >> 11 others also shot today, six people are dead. the victims were stuck behind the table set up for this event. >> investigators have the suspected shooter in custody. >> and there are other people that are injured. there are multiple people shot. >> okay. >> oh, my god. >> what police say is that shady looking gentleman was gerald loughner and the table that they're talking about is right over here. this is wh...

Operation that took place just about an hour or so after being shot. it's something that was developed on the battlefields and it's something that i do all the time at my other job. now the operation congresswoman giffords had done is a pretty commonly performed one by neurosurgeons. it's called a craniectomy, specifically a hemi craniectomy where you're removing almost half the skull on one side of the brain here. the reason you want to do this is to decrease the swelling from that primary injury. what we heard about congresswoman giffords, she had a bullet wound that entered the front over h...

Here to actually connect the dots between the various holes. the goal is to try to get the bone off, again, while minimizing damage to the brain underneath, and take that bone off as quickly as possible. now, with the brain, unlike other organs in the body, it has no place to swell if it is injured. the only place is down here, and that's what is called a herniation, and that is what can be devastating neurologically and can even lead to death. this bone gets stored and save and put in the refrigerator to put back in at a later time. congresswoman giffords will have the skin closed at that tim...