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January 11, 2011 - 10:20 am - by Ed Driscoll

“Doctors give Giffords ’100% chance’ of survival,” Ed Morrissey writes:

Doctors are so pleased with the progress of Gabrielle Giffords that the trauma specialist in charge of her care gives her a “100% chance” of survival.  Recovery will still take a long time, however, and it will depend on what happens today, when dangerous swelling in the brain would normally peak:

Ed links to this article which notes:

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Physicians at the University of Arizona Medical Center issued their most optimistic assessment yet of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’s condition, with trauma specialist Dr. Peter Rhee telling a British television station that she was “100 percent likely to survive” after sustaining a gunshot wound to the head on Saturday.

“As a physician I’m going to get into a lot of trouble for this, but her prognosis for survival is 100 percent, as far as it being short term,” he said. “Hopefully she’ll live to be 95 years old.”

Giffords still has a difficult path to full recovery though; click over for a video and further details of the prognosis.

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  1. 1. whiskey

    I would hope everyone would pray for her, and her family, and that of the victims. If anyone knows a site/place where help or anything can be sent, please let us know.