There is substance to widespread reports doctors are now trying to wake Michael Schumacher from his month-long induced coma.<\/p>\n
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The seven time world champion’s manager Sabine Kehm played down the “speculation” on Wednesday, after the French sports daily L’Equipe said Schumacher, 45, has entered a recovery phase in which the medical team at Grenoble hospital would begin to ease the anaesthesia.<\/p>\n
L’Equipe said the awakening process, which could take several days and even weeks, actually began on Tuesday, led by the Grenoble doctor Emmanuel Gay.<\/p>\n
The report said Schumacher had initially “responded positively” to the process.<\/p>\n
Actually, L’Equipe was not the first to report the story, after the respected Le Journal de Dimanche said on Sunday that the beginnings of the awkening process were set to begin.<\/p>\n
And, crucially, the stories were reportedly confirmed by the Grenoble neurosurgeon Stephan Chabardes, according to French radio RMC, and BFMTV television.<\/p>\n
Germany’s Welt newspaper asked Kehm about Chabardes’ reported confirmation, but Schumacher’s manager referred only to her new media statement about “speculation”.<\/p>\n
And Bild newspaper reported that a new memo was sent to all employees at the treating Grenoble hospital, warning them not to disclose information “about the patient M Schumacher”.<\/p>\n
L’Equipe deputy chief editor Jeremie Arbona, however, told Bild: “We cannot disclose our sources, of course, but they are reliable.”<\/p>\n
No matter what the truth is, Schumacher’s situation remains severe.\u00a0 A leading German neurosurgeon, Andreas Ferbert, is quoted by the newsmagazine Focus: “Dcots put a patient in a coma for three or four weeks only when the condition of the brain is very serious.<\/p>\n
“Four weeks is a very long time,” he explained.<\/p>\n
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