Oxygen plus waiting for mom has to be decent signs. Maybe I’m just wishcasting.
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Thank God at least some slightly good news that he’s with us 
iirc they paused for about 3 hours and then came back out and finished the game
Can’t see this game continuing if he is still fighting for his life
My brother’s friend is a cardiologist and suspects this:
Looked very similar to when Keyontae Johnson collapsed on the basketball court back in 2020. He is playing again this year for K-state, hopefully this turns out similar.
It’s not good obviously, but that’s definitely in the range of having a good neurologic recovering assuming they could fix what caused it. There’s a lot of things that go into this. 9 minutes of CPR after 15 minutes of nothing is really bad. 9 minutes of high quality CPR after a minute or so is not so bad.
CPR doesn’t fix a torn aorta that caused a cardiac arrest. At that point, you just die. Structural injuries of the heart don’t get fixed either. Watching the video, and hedging obviously because I’m working with little information here, it’s likely commotio cordis, which is basically a R on T phenomenon. Basically the blunt trauma to the chest causes depolarization of the heart tissue as it’s repolarizing, which causes a disorganized rhythm that you frequently need to be shocked to get out of.
Good news is that an arrhythmia is very fixable. Bad news is that the range of outcomes here is very wide and includes “totally normal” to “dead”.
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I don’t think waiting for his mom is a good sign at all
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These are fantastic signs. I’m not watching, but if he’s spontaneously breathing and able to communicate these are great positive predictors.
Sure but it’s still a code and they’d run it. Agree with you commotio cordis is a good guess
Yeah, but you don’t get pulses back. You just die. Also takes way more energy than that.
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Rodger Goodall screaming at ESPN, “THE GAME MATTERS!”
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This is what came to my mind. Something similar to a player on the Rangers (Alexei Cherapanov) in 2008. He was their first round pick and died before playing a game for the team after getting hit in the chest with a hockey puck.
This seems like good news.
Yeah ugh. Hey at least they’re getting the ad dollars. At least my broadcast has been a huge amount of ads (including ads for the NFL in a perverse irony) interspersed with awkward booger/kolber/Schefter ESPN clips
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Anyone know if they shocked him when he was lying there on the turf?
Crowd all in their seats, probably stunned
I guess I haven’t really moved since it happened.
In 2004 a lacrosse player at Cornell died on-field from (what has since been suspected to be) this after being struck by a ball in the chest.