Alpine skiing: Horror crash victim Albrecht 'stable': doctorSwiss skier Daniel Albrecht Daniel Albrecht (born 25 May 1983) is a Swiss alpine skier and the present world champion in combined. External links
• , victim of a horror crash at Kitzbuhel on Thursday, was reported to be in a "stable" condition but facing a lengthy spell in hospital, his doctor reported on Friday. The 25-year-old suffered concussion concussion Period of nervous-function impairment that results from relatively mild brain injury, often with no bleeding in the cerebral cortex. It causes brief unconsciousness, followed by mental confusion and physical difficulties. and lung damage in the 140kph fall and although he regained consciousness he was then put into an artificial coma. "He'll have to stay in the coma for several more days, and remain in hospital for some weeks. He's stable," Wolfgang Koller, the doctor treating Albrecht told a press conference. "His convalescence convalescence /con·va·les·cence/ (kon?vah-les´ins) the stage of recovery from an illness, operation, or injury. con·va·les·cence n. 1. will take longer after that," he added. "A full recovery is possible," insisted Koller's coleague, Norbert Mutz. The two doctors ruled out any damage to the skier's spinal cord spinal cord, the part of the nervous system occupying the hollow interior (vertebral canal) of the series of vertebrae that form the spinal column, technically known as the vertebral column. . Without revealing specific details of the injuries suffered by Albrecht the hospital's medical team said they were tracking the state of the brain, circulation, respiratory mechanism and kidney function. Neurology neurology (n  rŏl`əjē, ny–), study of the morphology, physiology, and pathology of the human nervous system. specialist Richard Bauer said the bleeding that had occurred to the head "did not require surgery".
Albrecht, the reigning world super-combined champion, crashed in a notoriously tricky section of the Kitzbuhel slope when training for Friday's World Cup downhill event. He was attended to by doctors at the scene before being helicoptered to hospital in nearby Sankt-Johann. Albrecht fell in the identical part of the slope that caught out American Scott Macartney Scott Macartney (born 19 January 1978 in Seattle, Washington) is an American alpine skier. Macartney grew up skiing every weekend at the Crystal Mountain in the state of Washington. last year. He too was put into an artificial coma and was kept in it for several days after suffering head injuries from his crash. Macartney's accident prompted organisers to modify this high speed section of the course. 
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