Monday night football incident
I have been watching the NFL my whole life. I know some of you don't and I respect that, but I still watch the occasional game. I have never seen a player get CPR on the field and then have an ambulance come out to take them away before;
Bills' Damar Hamlin suffers scary injury vs. Bengals on 'Monday Night Football'; game temporarily suspended
The injury occurred during the first quarter of Monday's game
This is a 24 year old athlete that just collapsed and from all indications stopped breathing. Heart attack, stroke, aneurysm, it could be a lot of things. Scary! Bob
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One of my old paramedic buddies was working out in a gym in Milledgeville, Georgia five years ago. Suddenly, one of the guys working out collapsed to the floor. A bystander yelled out "Heart Attack!" and he began CPR.
Gary was close by, and he stopped the man after 3 compressions. About 3 seconds. He told the guy to lay off, as he was a Paramedic. Gary checked the neck, and there was a carotid pulse! The man was having a seizure, his heart never had stopped beating.
Had Gary not intervened, the ambulance would have arrived in 5 minutes, "helpful bystanders" doing CPR, ambulance medics hook him to the monitor, and his heart is beating! It would have made the newspaper as "CPR SAVES MAN AT GYM."
It would have made the newspapers so, had sharp broken rib ends not lacerated his heart, and caused his death.
Taking a pulse is tricky, especially if the patient is having a seizure. Takes a lot of practice to be able to feel for a pulse, especially in a crisis.
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allen griggs: 30375960788379/comments/30375993839771
Be sure the pt is in cardiac arrest. It is hard to check for a pulse. It is possible that your CPR "save" was never in cardiac arrest in the first place.
CPR can and will cause fractured ribs, and those sharp rib ends can drive into the heart and lungs, causing major damage. Old geezers have more brittle ribs than do young people.
I have been on the scene over 350 times when CPR was administered, and about 10 of those patients walked out of the hospital. We paramedics called CPR "one of the greatest hoaxes ever pulled on the American people."
We experienced field Medics could not figure out why the Red Cross pushed CPR so vigorously. I guess the Red Cross made money off of it.
Full cardiac arrest was confirmed in the hospital. The save was performed by a trained EMT who knew what he was doing. While I appreciate your armchair assessment, you are no quarterback.
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back in the 70s i guess, the old St Louis Football Cardinals had a magnificent tight end JV Caine, who collapsed and died at their practice facility. mid 20s on him also. cardiac arrest
i was a senior in high school fall of 1967, playing right guard on offense. The fullback a junior 16 yrs old was following me on a running play. he was holding my jersey as we turned the corner of the defense. he pulled me down when he collapsed. he was taken from the field immediately to the local hospital where he was pronounced dead. brain aneurism, no connection to football activity. autopsy showed him to have 4 other places in his body ready to burst the artery.
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