I guess the charitable interpretation of the whole thing would be “We’re gonna take five while we figure out what is going on. You can go warm up just in case.”
I think so. But there has to be some sort of carve out for player injuries (maybe it’s in the CBA or something). Every player has all of their injuries (i.e. health information) reported on every week. I doubt they’re signing HIPAA paperwork every time. So maybe there is some blanket thing that they sign that gives the team/NFL the right to the info. And maybe the team can just produce that. I’ve got no idea.
I’m shocked they didn’t intubate him on the field tbh. They will let the sedation wear off and check to see if he can follow commands. If not we have at least a day and probably a few days before there is a solid update on his neurologic condition. He got cpr pretty much immediately so I’m pretty hopeful he can recover.
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Well yeah. There’s a picture of my hand holding an object from a wild case I worked on in a fairly major publication. People just break the rules.
Perhaps there’s a carve-out to the carve-out for situations like this. I think maybe once a player enters the hospital they get more privacy protections.
Seriously though, reports of an aed being used and him not being intubated immediately makes me think the nfl has emts standing by rather than paramedics. Seriously hope I’m wrong about that.
I mean no doubt his family is gonna sue the hell out of the NFL. Gonna be like Owen Hart’s family suing the WWE minus the intra-family scuffling.
Why stop there? NFL could easily afford to pay an ER doc to just be present on standby at every game. I’m sure they wouldn’t have too much difficulty finding people.
NFL already setting up their defense for the inevitable lawsuit
5 min warmup should really be irrelevant to any lawsuit, callous though it may be.
I mean sure the NFL sucks. But it seems highly possible the 5 minute warmup thing was a miscommunication somewhere along the line.
At no point did it look like anyone was warming up. If the league told McDermott to warm up, I doubt Vincent would be that clear in his language denying it.
Looks like 2 PCPs are present at every game and a local ER doc.
It also looks like there is a professional present to facilitate intubation if needed. Maybe they didn’t think it was needed here?
The “EMT/paramedic team” is a bit vague.
I think the key there is the “1 Airway management physician”. That should, I think, address @Will1530 's concern. And the ER doc on top of that should more than address it.
If he needed intubating on the field, there were qualified people to make the call and do it.
Edit: Also, LOL at the fucking chiropractors. Why the fuck would you add one of those quacks to the mix?
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Assuming all the professionals in that chart were present, I think the NFL had established a reasonable standard of care for emergencies.
Yeah ok then. Maybe the reporting is just wrong, or they tried and couldn’t get a tube with cpr ongoing. It happens sometimes.
Toy drive has surpassed $2.1M.
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The “chiropractor” is the only one that gets a stethoscope. Yeah, okay.
I realize they are different but can you elaborate on how they are different? Like how much different is their training and what they can do?
Chiropractor?