Triathlete Luisa Baptista was discharged from hospital this Monday (1), from Hospital São Luiz, in Itaim, in São Paulo. The athlete spent 100 days in hospital after suffering a serious accident in the São Carlos region, in the interior of the state of São Paulo, in December.
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On December 23, 2023, Luisa was preparing for the Paris Olympics when she was run over by an unlicensed motorcyclist. The case happened on Estrada Municipal Abel Terrugi (SCA-329), in the district of Santa Eudóxia, while she was cycling with other cyclists.
The athlete was admitted to the hospital with severe hemorrhagic shock and Luisa’s heart stopped for eight minutes. She suffered no brain damage, but had fractures on most of the right side of her body, with some open fractures on her hand and leg. Faced with a situation considered almost irreversible. A machine known as ECMO, which works like an artificial lung, helped the triathlete fight for her life.
Luisa received care at Santa Casa de São Carlos and the Hospital das Clínicas of the University of São Paulo (USP), and was later transferred to Hospital São Luiz, in Itaim, in the South Zone of the capital of São Paulo.
The athlete represented Brazil in the last edition of the Pan American Games, in Santiago, Chile. Luisa also competed in the 2019 edition of the Pan, in Lima, an edition in which she was champion in the individual and mixed categories, in addition to the Tokyo Olympic Games, with 32nd position in the individual competition.
