The speculation I have heard from cardiologists is that it was a very rare ( in football) case of Commotio cordis. That’s when a blunt blow to the chest, delivered at a specific point in the cardiac cycle, induces a dangerous, life-threatening heart arrhythmia or cardiac arrest.
While we weren’t watching the game, I have watched the replay. I had ESPN on last night and was listening to someone talking about the medical staff that they have at every game. It was pretty extensive. We are all praying for him.
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Dr. Sanjay Gupta covered this on CNN yesterday.
https://twitter.com/cnn/status/1610252022913155075?s=46&t=iN4lUA3pE-trZ0Zf1o09nA
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Our extended family Fantasy Football league decided to send all the money in the pool to his charity.
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I think he’ll physically recover. If it were me, I would have a hard time playing football after something like that.
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The Danish soccer player who collapsed and his heart stopped at the UEFA European championships last June recovered and is back with his English Premier League team.
That game was resumed that night, but after the players had reports that he was doing fine in the hospital.
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I wonder if he is still on a ventilator. I know it’s a big concern, the longer a patient is on one. I’ve been through that waiting process multiple times with my parents. My dad ended up OK, my mom didn’t.
Does anyone know the mechanisms necessary to resume normal respiration? How is his heart beating, and he is conscious and aware, but is still unable to breathe on his own? Would structural damage to the lungs be involved, maybe?
I’m also wondering why he cannot breathe and why his lungs “need to heal” according to sources quoted in various news blips.
He’s allegedly neurologically intact, his arrhythmia was allegedly corrected on the field, so why does he still need mechanical ventilation three days later?
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I read something about blood in his lungs and that he is lying prone (but I read that at least a day ago)…maybe you know more about what that could mean?
In order not to fight the ventilator they have to sedate you.
Press conference alluded to ARDS Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. An inflammation of the lungs which can happen after an event. This has already shown improvement and they hope that it continues to improve.
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It sounds like some kind of acute post arrest inflammatory process/reperfusion injury. I’ve seen that a lot in brain and gut after cardiac arrest. I wonder how long it took them to get an AED attached to him and working on the arrhythmia. CPR alone would not cut it in the event he had a lethal ventricular arrhythmia.
Such a horrible event. I hope he continues to improve and that he indeed has no neurological deficits.
" The lung’s role in modulating the response to acute organ damage is both underappreciated and incompletely defined. In the setting of CA, lung damage may arise from ischemia, exposure to high-dose oxygen, trauma from chest compressions, and barotrauma during mechanical ventilation. Also, the lung is often a site of secondary infection given the high likelihood for airway compromise and aspiration. Further, neutrophils migrating from sites of ischemic injury preferentially travel to the lung and cause local pulmonary inflammation."
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I don’t know the timing of the AED, but the Dr.s today in a press conference said they used it on him while on the field.
The report was that his lungs were damaged while they were giving him CPR on the field. They may have pushed his chest pads into his chest and bruised a lung.
For the first night and days at the hospital they had him on his stomach to help with the lungs/breathing, like with Covid patients.
I was very impressed with the ‘60 minute meeting’ where the medical team from both teams meet 50 minutes before the game to discuss the plan - who will get the AED, who will stop bleeding, who will call for the ambulance, etc. Before EVERY game.
It would be nice if they used some of his charity money to buy an AED for every school or sports team in the US, and train people. This is very rare in football, but a little more common in baseball, hockey, and lacrosse where projectiles are flying at the chests of players at high speed.
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I saw this on Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/p/CnC1hpQNPun/?igshid=ZDFmNTE4Nzc=
It says he asked in writing who won the game and the doctors told him “you won the game of life”
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The fact that he could write seems like a very positive sign.
NFL likely to cancel the suspended game.