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Magician listed in serious condition after transfer from Nevada to UCLA facility
By JOELLE BABULA
REVIEW-JOURNAL GAMING WIRE
The condition of injured magician Roy Horn has been upgraded from critical to serious condition, a UCLA Medical Center official said Wednesday.
The announcement came one day after Horn was transferred from University Medical Center to the Los Angeles hospital.
Prior to the move, Horn had been listed in critical condition since a white tiger mauled him during an Oct. 3 performance of Siegfried & Roy at The Mirage.
On Wednesday, UCLA spokeswoman Roxanne Moster confirmed that Horn was in serious condition.
"Critical is the worst, serious is the next step above that," Moster said. "Doctors here at UCLA have said he's in serious condition and that his vital signs are stable."
UMC Emergency Room Director Dale Carrison said the upgrade is "great news" for Horn.
"Critical means we don't know if you are going to live or die," he said. "Serious means you do have a serious medical condition, but that you're not in imminent danger of dying."
In a prepared statement released Wednesday, Siegfried Fischbacher welcomed the positive news but cautioned that Horn still faces a long road to recovery.
"Roy is making the transition from survival to recovery," he said.
The attack occurred about 45 minutes into the magicians' 7:30 p.m. show before 1,503 people.
Montecore, a 7-year-old white tiger, bit Horn on the left side of his neck and dragged him off the stage.
Horn lost a significant amount of blood before his ambulance arrived at the UMC Trauma Center late on his 59th birthday.
Hospital officials have said the immediate availability of a team of specialists at the Trauma Center probably saved Horn's life.
Sources have told the Review-Journal that Horn's initial surgery, in which doctors had to resuscitate him, ended about 11:30 p.m. Oct. 3.
He later suffered a stroke and was returned to surgery to relieve severe pressure on his brain at about 9:30 the next morning.
Las Vegas neurosurgeon Lonnie Hammargren told the Review-Journal on Oct. 15 that Horn suffered paralysis on his left side following the attack.
Hammargren said such paralysis can be temporary, but said it was difficult to determine a prognosis at that point.
"Paralysis can get better after, but he had a pretty big stroke," he said.
UCLA offers several rehabilitation and speciality centers, including one for stroke victims. The UCLA Stroke Center was one of the nation's first facilities dedicated to taking care of stroke victims.
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