Am I correct that cardiac arrest means not commotio cordis, or are those two things compatible?
All commotio cordis results in cardiac arrest. All cardiac arrest is not commotio cordis.
This was linked to by Jeff Stotts, who is my go-to guy for information about sports injuries. The author is Dr. David Chao, the former team doctor for the Chargers (and one who was controversial in his tenure there.)
A nearby trauma center is always designated and on stand by during NFL games. The ambulance was not slow moving to transport Hamlin. It is normal to stabilize before transport as it is unsafe to proceed with an unstable patient. There were more medical personnel on field than could fit in the ambulance plus all the medications, oxygen and lifesaving supplies needed meaning there was no reason to move him to the hospital until it was safe.
The best early sign was that the ambulance reportedly waited for his mom to come along indicating some early stability for Hamlin. The intubation (breathing tube) is normal/common for any critical care patient in the ICU and doesn’t indicate a worse situation. A report of “normal” vital signs are positive news.
I finally went to a chiropractor for my back a few years ago. This guy wasn’t into or least didn’t push any of the out there stuff. It was basically PT with a more aggressive hands on manipulation than you get at PT clinic. I still do the stuff he taught me for back maintenance.
I’d imagine this would be the type involved with a sports team.
(I have not been to, but have certainly seen the quackery side of thing in local advertisements for chiro clinics, an aside—a “Dr” B in my small home time went to prison for tax evasion based on sovereign citizen crap).
HOCM, neurogenic shock and vertebral artery dissection are some more wild ass guesses from a doctor buddy this morning. Way out of my depth
The sheer helplessness in Ryan Clark’s voice is heartbreaking.
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Toy drive now at $3.5 million.
It’s creepy to look at my normal sports app and see the Live badge next to NFL, permanently, on account of the suspended game.
I think the internet got that game postponed last night. The NFL is of course lying and they absolutely were going to just restart the game. Such scumbags.
I kinda subscribe to the theory that the NFL just didn’t say anything and the officials might have been the ones saying “uh ok standard procedure is to give you guys 5 minutes to get ready to continue” because of the radio silence. But who knows.
As far as the game resuming, I heard some talk today about the possibility of just postponing the weekend’s games completely, having Bills/Bengals play next Monday, and then losing the off week before the SB. This may have just been sports radio yambags speculating though, didn’t catch enough to know if this is something really being floated.
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Yeah this. Also keep in mind that in statements by NFL/NFLPA saying that NFL didn’t instruct the 5 minute thing, by “NFL” they mean “people in the NYC NFL office and maybe some traveling exec/ish officials”, and specifically not referring to the actual officiating staff and other game operations folks.
Seems unlikely since that’s the night of the NCAA title game.
They could play it in the afternoon. Or Sunday night.
Just dont play the game and cancel the Bills game Sunday. Problems solved.
Owners as a whole pay the players for the games out of the giant pile of money earned by the NFL every year.
Having those teams play as late as Thursday seems insanely unfair for the week 18 turnaround, unless they plan on making it weird and putting off each team’s games until Monday or even Tuesday next week.
If they can make this shit work during the COVID season they can make it work here. The NFL can just fucking wait a day or 2 until we have updates on Damar’s condition to decide what to do next.
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Cancel the game, Bills and Bengals play 16 game seasons, Chiefs do the right thing and forfeit their last game to preserve the integrity of the seeding process. Combine that with a heartwarming medical miracle and we have ourselves a happy new year.
I watched sports center for the first time in 15 years after the game and I agree Ryan was amazing.