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They had to send him somewhere with more advanced imaging equipment—
他們必須要把澤維爾送到一家影像設備更加先進的醫院-
Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, about 40 minutes north of the family's home in Harrisonville.
密蘇里州堪薩斯城的兒童慈善醫院，距離他們在哈里森維爾的家大約40分鐘車程。
To prevent Xavier from moving his head, hospital staff put a plastic cervical collar on his neck, and they wrapped his entire head in white gauze to help stabilize the skewer.
為了防止澤維爾移動他的頭部，醫務人員在他脖子上放了一個塑料頸圈，他們用白紗布包裹了他的整個頭部，以幫助固定尖桿。
The only thing left exposed besides that mud-caked metal rod was his mouth.
除了那個粘著泥土的尖桿，唯一露出來的就是他的嘴。
At Children's Mercy, doctors performed a computed tomography (CT) angiogram to see whether the skewer had pierced one of his major blood vessels.
在兒童慈善醫院，醫生們給他做了計算機斷層血管成像檢查，以確定尖桿是否刺穿了他的一條主要血管。
They were amazed to find that it had barely missed every vital artery when it penetrated his head.
他們驚奇地發現，刺進了他的頭部的尖桿，竟然勉強地漏掉了每一根重要的動脈。
It was like the proverbial threading of a needle, only with life-and-death consequences.
這就像眾所周知的穿針引線一樣，只是它會帶來生或死的后果。
But there was a wrinkle. Metal shows up on CT scans as vivid white, without defined edges.
但有一個問題。在CT掃描中，金屬顯示為清晰的白色，沒有明顯的邊緣。
If the skewer had any kind of bend, a sharp edge, or a gap, then pulling it out now would be rolling the dice, as it could catch on an artery and rip it open.
如果尖桿有任何彎曲，尖銳的邊緣，或缺口，那么現在把它取出來就是后果未知，因為它可以絆住動脈并撕開它。
The only other way to get a clear picture of the skewer was with biplane angiography—a process that gives doctors a crystal clear three-dimensional view inside the vascular system.
唯一能清楚地看到尖桿的另一個方法是用雙平面血管造影，這一過程能讓醫生清楚地看到血管系統內部的三維圖像。
It is performed using highly specialized equipment that only some hospitals have.
它需要使用只有某些醫院才配有的高度專業化的設備。
One of them, the University of Kansas Hospital, was just five miles away.
五公里外的堪薩斯大學醫院就配有這種設備。
An ER doctor got on the phone with KU to describe the case they were about to transfer.
一位急救室的醫生打電話給堪薩斯大學醫院，向他描述了他們要轉院的情況。
It was now around 7:30 p.m. Xavier had been impaled for six hours.
當時已經是下午七點半了，澤維爾已經被刺傷了六個小時了。
Koji Ebersole, MD, an endo-vascular neurosurgeon at KU, was playing tennis when his cell phone rang.
醫學博士科吉·埃伯索爾是堪薩斯大學的血管內神經外科醫生，電話打過來的時候，他正在打網球。
At the side of the lighted court, he took the call from another KU doctor telling him about a boy who had been impaled by a large metal skewer.
在燈火通明的球場邊，科吉接到另一位堪薩斯大學醫院醫生的電話，被告知一個男孩被一根大金屬棒刺穿了。
Dr.Ebersole looked at the photograph from the hospital on his phone. Whoa, he thought. He'd never seen anything like it.
埃伯索爾醫生看了看手機上醫院發來的照片。哇，他想。他從來沒遇到過這樣的情況。
The poor boy was lying on a gurney with a huge spike sticking about nine inches out of his face.
這個可憐的男孩躺在輪床上，一根巨大的釘子從他的臉上伸出大約九英寸。
