Bishop’s Gaiter Kwasny remains in critical but stable condition after brain surgery

Winnipeg’s Kevin Kwasny remained in critical but stable condition in an induced coma in a Sherbrooke, Que., hospital on Monday after suffering an injury to the head that caused a brain hemorrhage in the Concordia Bishop’s CIS game in Lennoxville on Saturday.

The 6-foot-1, 230-pound defensive end for Bishop’s University did not complain of anything after a specific hit. It was toward the end of halftime intermission that the 2008 all-star defensive player of the year with the St. Paul’s High School Crusaders in Winnipeg showed signs of discomfort and began vomiting. He was assisted by several teammates and was taken to the team’s medical staff. Shortly afterward, he was en route to the hospital by ambulance. He underwent an operation for a subdural hematoma Saturday night. The operation was to relieve swelling on his brain.

Addona and members of the Gaiters’ coaching staff reviewed game film to try to determine how Kwasny, who is studying social sciences, might have suffered the injury, but were unable to find any obvious cause.

Bishop’s head coach Tony Addona told The Gazette (Montreal) on Monday that doctors say it too early tell whether the Winnipeg native will make a full recovery because he has been in a medically induced coma since having emergency surgery to relieve swelling on his brain a few hours after he was taken by ambulance to Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Sherbrooke (CHUS).

Kwasny’s family is in Sherbrooke with Kevin.

Doctors will have to wait until swelling subsides before they can determine if Kwasny has suffered permanent brain damage.

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