Bills Safety Damar Hamlin Collapses On Field...Officials Administer Emergency CPR - 24 year old NFL player collapses suddenly

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1/2/2023 6:22 PM PT​


Horrifying moment during the Bills vs. Bengals game on "Monday Night Football" -- Buffalo safety Damar Hamlin collapsed at the end of a play ... and required CPR in the middle of the field.

The incident happened just minutes into the game's first quarter ... right after Hamlin tackled Tee Higgins to the ground.

The 24-year-old -- a sixth-round pick in the 2021 NFL Draft -- appeared to get up from the stop just fine ... but he seemed to lose consciousness as he got to his feet, and crumpled to the ground.

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Medical personnel raced onto the field -- and according to the game's announcer, Joe Buck, officials performed CPR on him for several minutes.

He was eventually strapped to a backboard and then loaded onto a stretcher. He was then taken off the field in an ambulance.

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Players from both teams were visibly concerned for the defensive back -- Josh Allen buried his face in his hands, while Stefon Diggs had tears running down his face. Reporters on the scene said multiple other players were seen crying.

The league has temporarily suspended play in wake of the injury.

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Teams were told, after he was transported, to “warm up for 5 minutes,” and keep going as if nothing happened.

Absolutely horrific.
To be fair I don’t think it’s the job of the officials to stop a game after something like that. Im sure they’ve got to treat it like a broken leg or a torn ACL. The handegg show must go on!
 
Will powerlevel here.
I work in emergency medicine.
It’s comotio cordis. Essentially, the impact lined up at a precise moment in the heart’s natural rhythm, sending him into cardiac arrest.

It is survivable, but the likelihood only decreases with time. Medics can stabilize vitals and control his breathing, but that’s only temporary. This is a full blown form of traumatic cardiac arrest, and the outcome is typically grim.
Absolutely horrific injury. Game 100% needed to be canceled.

The typical rule in emergency medicine is that you work your patient for about 30 minutes to get a pulse back. Pushing meds, CPR, the whole 9 yards. If nothing is achieved, you either call it or transport out to the hospital for them to call it (depends on who you work for). Reaching 30 minutes on call for CPR is a sign that this will likely not end well.
I'm seeing people say it's comotio cordis a lot. I'm not disagreeing, but if it's not too retarded of a question, if that is what it is then shouldn't football players getting cmotio cordis happen much more often? I mean in theory impacts to the chest happen a lot in the game.
 
I'm seeing people say it's comotio cordis a lot. I'm not disagreeing, but if it's not too retarded of a question, if that is what it is then shouldn't football players getting cmotio cordis happen much more often? I mean in theory impacts to the chest happen a lot in the game.
The likelihood of it happening is slim. It legit is a fraction of a fraction of a second. The impact has to be in the right area, time, and with enough force. It’s a good question and a perfectly normal thing to ask. The stars essentially have to align on a razor thin margin for it to happen.
 
Howard Glenn suffered a broken neck during an AFL game and died the same day.


Isn't intubating basically a sign that the person is near death or doesn't have long?
No. Was intubated myself after open-heart surgery years ago. Once I woke up, later the tube was removed.
 
I'm seeing people say it's comotio cordis a lot. I'm not disagreeing, but if it's not too retarded of a question, if that is what it is then shouldn't football players getting cmotio cordis happen much more often? I mean in theory impacts to the chest happen a lot in the game.
Depending on heart rate, the phase of the heartbeat where an impact will actually cause commotio cordis is about one tenth to just below one third of a second for each heartbeat. Not only do you need to get hit within a certain period, but it also has to be over a certain area and with certain force. Hearing about it once every few years is about right for the likelihood of it happening with thousands of people getting walloped in the chest each year for sports.
 
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Here’s an EKG of where comottio cordis happens.
That’s exactly one full heart beat, and the window is about as small as it gets. It’s technically considered a medical phenomena, considering how everything has to line up for it to happen.
 
Isn't intubating basically a sign that the person is near death or doesn't have long?
If you're intubated as a part of a planned surgical procedure you will probably be fine. If you're intubated because you are an infant born before 35 weeks and you don't have enough surfactant but are otherwise robust, you will probably be fine. Any other scenario, your odds of ever getting off the vent and going home are 50/50 or worse.
Natasha Richardson went skiing in 2009 and she hit a tree, yet she got up and was walking and talking before she collapsed and died.
She had a subdural hematoma, it took a little time for the bleed to spread and kill her.
 
It is extremely sad but the shit talking that 85 is going to do for the rest of his career is going to be legendary.

"YOU WANT ME TO KILL YOU TOO NIGGA? I'M THE UNDERTAKER OUT HERE" and so on.
Move over Jerry Rice and Randy Moss because Tee Higgins is about to start putting up 3500 receiving yard/40 receiving touchdown seasons because most players will be afraid to tackle him.
 
If you're intubated as a part of a planned surgical procedure you will probably be fine. If you're intubated because you are an infant born before 35 weeks and you don't have enough surfactant but are otherwise robust, you will probably be fine. Any other scenario, your odds of ever getting off the vent and going home are 50/50 or worse.

She had a subdural hematoma, it took a little time for the bleed to spread and kill her.
If I recall correctly if you’re on a vent for 30 days you have something like a 90% chance of having severe brain damage and being a veggietale the rest of your life.
 
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I'm sure we'll get told this happens all the time
If only.
Man gets shocking force to chest and head in a sport with history of brain and body injuries... must be the vaccine!

I have seen this sentiment all over. What the fuck does this have do with Covid vaccines??
The last player to die on field in the NFL was 1971, and said player had early onset heart disease and already had one heart attack. They don't even hit people that hard in the NFL anymore compared to even 20-30 years ago. Here, look what Damar Hamlin was ejected for earlier this season, nobody died from it. Even in college football where there's an order of magnitude more players, barely anyone has died on the field in the past 50 years.

And then in 2021, a dangerous new drug was rolled out that practically all NFL players were forced to take and the few who spoke out like Aaron Rodgers silenced and condemned. Among soccer players (who also overwhelmingly took this drug), this caused a threefold increase in heart attacks on the field (average 8 per year 2010-2019, 24 in 2021). Damar Hamlin had a heart attack after he exerted himself tackling a guy. Hmm, must be climate change.
 
Man gets shocking force to chest and head in a sport with history of brain and body injuries...
Fuck off. I played rugby league (no pads, pussy Americans) and ice hockey, and I have been hit way harder than that. Been severely concussed when I broke a coconut's knee with my forehead, and once knocked a kid out completely with an accidental headbutt that I didn't even feel.
That tackle was very mild.

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