A substance of milliseconds mightiness person been the quality betwixt Damar Hamlin continuing connected to the adjacent play alternatively than collapsing and successful request of lifesaving measures.
“If you get deed successful the chest,” the University of Maryland Medical School cardiologist said, “if it happens betwixt heartbeats successful a precise tiny window, it tin enactment the bosom successful ventricular fibrillation.
“The bosom stops beating,” said Dr. Scott Jerome, an adjunct prof of medicine and a practicing cardiologist with the University of Maryland Medical Medical System.
Hamlin, a information for the Buffalo Bills, was successful captious information Monday night aft helium collided with Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Tee Higgins. He got up but past collapsed, and arsenic those successful the stadium and a “Monday Night Football” assemblage watched aghast, aesculapian unit administered CPR and an automated outer defibrillator, oregon AED, was utilized connected him. He was taken by ambulance to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center.
Jerome, who was not watching the crippled but looked astatine replays, said it appears that Hamlin suffered commotio cordis, Latin for “agitation of the heart,” from being struck successful the thorax astatine a peculiar clip successful the bosom bushed cycle. That causes an interruption successful the heart’s electrical signal, and cardiac arrest.
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Buffalo Bills players respond arsenic teammate Damar Hamlin is examined connected the field. (Jeff Dean/AP)
“It’s a precise constrictive window,” Jerome said.
The improvement has been seen successful younker shot and successful lacrosse erstwhile balls onslaught players successful the chest, helium said.
And indeed, connected April 16, 2021, Loyola Blakefield defenseman Peter Laake was struck successful the thorax by a changeable during a crippled against McDonogh and collapsed. Team unit and 2 doctors successful the stands rushed to dainty him, utilizing an AED, earlier helium was taken to a hospital. After a little infirmary enactment and tests, helium was cleared to play and this autumn committed to the University of Maryland.
Young athletes are much susceptible compared with older, nonrecreational athletes who are much susceptible of absorbing the blow.
“These shot players, they’re beefy and person a batch to sorb the hit,” Jerome said.
Commotio cordis is rare, with fewer than 30 cases reported each year, according to an nonfiction successful the National Library of Medicine.
Jerome said the prognosis should beryllium “pretty good” for Hamlin, fixed that “they person each the aesculapian instrumentality connected the field.”
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