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Quickly. with stroke it's really within three hours. with this sort of thing you have to think about getting there as quickly as you can as well. if you can take the pressure off of the brain simply by removing bone, removing this blood collection, take that pressure off the brain as quickly as possible, you greatly increase the chances of survival. you mean that's -- it's just as simple as that. it's just basically a pressure issue at that point. the brain has nowhere to go because it's encased by bone. so, you know, i think the message is -- again, i don't want to frighten people. people do ...

Other people, and how could this happen? >> yeah, i mean, it's so sad, laura. >> yes. >> certainly what has happened here. you know, i think what may have happened is that he may have had a significant blow to the head sometimes in the hotel room on the headboard of the bed or the bathtub or something, you have a significant blow. you may develop some, at the time what is slow bleeding. but the blood starts to accumulate over time. if he was in bed, went to sleep, he may have lost consciousness and that blood continued to accumulate, leading to his death. this is called a subdural hematoma, an...