Across the nation, radical are inactive reacting to what happened during Monday night’s shot crippled betwixt the Buffalo Bills and Cincinnati Bengals.
The Bills’ 24-year-old information Damar Hamlin collapsed connected the tract conscionable moments aft a tackle.
He remains successful captious information arsenic of Tuesday evening.
With truthful galore unknowns surrounding however and wherefore this happened, KIRO 7 went to the University of Washington’s Medicine Center for Sports Cardiology successful hunt of answers.
Dr. Kimberly Harmon, main of sports medicine for UW.
Dr. Jordan Prutkin, a cardiac electrophysiologist with UW Medicine’s bosom institute emphasized that without specifics, the “why’s” surrounding what happened to Hamiln are limited.
“While we don’t cognize precisely what the origin was of it … radical person been speculating that it could beryllium thing called commotio cordis,” said Prutkin.
Commotio cordis happens erstwhile a high-force entity hits the halfway of the thorax successful a circumstantial spot wrong the aforesaid clip framework of the heart’s electrical signal.
The operation of events each astatine erstwhile tin trigger cardiac arrest, though experts accidental the likelihood of this happening are 1 successful 200 million.
This, of course, isn’t the lone happening that could trigger specified an event, and the physicians with UW Medicine made it wide that this isn’t to beryllium confused with a bosom attack.
“A bosom onslaught is simply a plumbing problem, truthful that’s an contented wherever 1 of the arteries of the bosom gets blocked. That’s precise antithetic than a cardiac arrest, which astir commonly is owed to an electrical contented wherever you person a life-threatening, accelerated bosom rhythm,” explained Prutkin. “A bosom onslaught successful and of itself is not a life-threatening thing, but a cardiac apprehension is simply a life-threatening thing, and it’s truly important to get punctual CPR and AED if it’s a shockable rhythm.”
In their ain research, Prutkin and Dr. Kimberly Harmon, Chief of Sports Medicine astatine UW, said that events similar this, specifically successful football, are rare.
“In the NCAA registry we did that looked astatine a decennary of abrupt cardiac arrest, we had 3 cases retired of astir 350 deaths … and they were each successful lacrosse oregon baseball, truthful nary successful football,” said Harmon. “So this tin happen, it tin hap successful football.”
This makes identifying matters of the bosom challenging, particularly successful a athletics wherever the absorption is typically connected preventing caput injuries.
“If an jock has a abrupt illness — they’re lasting up and past they autumn down — it should truly beryllium a abrupt cardiac arrest, until proven otherwise,” said Harmon.
The NFL said the crippled betwixt the Bills and Bengals volition not resume this week and that nary determination has been made astir playing it astatine a aboriginal date.
Hamlin’s mishap comes amid increasing concerns astir the NFL’s handling of concussed players, and players from teams crossed the state are agreed successful their message: the crippled is not arsenic important arsenic someone’s beingness and well-being.
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