CPR on the field on Monday Night Football?
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QuilterFrawg
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I posted this on the NFL Thread
tcudoc
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Commotio cordis is my best guess.
Commotio cordis is a phenomenon in which a sudden blunt impact to the chest causes sudden death in the absence of cardiac damage. This condition was first described in the middle of the 18th century in the context of chest trauma among workers
Commotio cordis is a phenomenon in which a sudden blunt impact to the chest causes sudden death in the absence of cardiac damage. This condition was first described in the middle of the 18th century in the context of chest trauma among workers
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LisaLT
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SO unbelievably horrible
McFroggin
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Most likely option. HCM lower odds. Time to AED known?
StinnettFrog
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Prayers for him and his family.
Certainly possible. The hit really didn’t look that bad which makes me wonder if he had a subclinical heart condition (myocarditis?) aggravated by the hit. At this point who knows.
ShreveFrog
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But he’s probably been hit like that a hundred times. Hope he is revived and will 100 percent recover.
tcudoc
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It has to do with that exact point in the cardiac cycle. The exact microsecond when the hit occurs that triggers a cardiac conduction abnormality.
I’ve heard of it in soccer from blunt impact of a soccer ball to the chest.
Brog
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Amazing watching it over. Hamlin wasn't exactly hit. He made the tackle on the Bengals player and it didn't look like an unusually hard tackle or violent tackle at all. And then he got up and stood upright for about two seconds and fell straight onto his back. Sure do hope he recovers as he is now said to be in critical conditions at the hospital.
hometown frog
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Unreal night in history. Praying this kid survives. Also hoping this can become another step in the right direction w the NFL being forced to better handle player safety and well being moving forward. The fact that their first reaction was to simply give the players 10 minutes to restart the game and that it (rumored) took the players and coaches to effectively conduct a mutiny and head to the locker rooms to suspend the game is a terrible look
CountryFrog
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I don't disagree but somewhat in the NFL's defense this was a totally unprecedented situation as far as I know. I don't remember ever seeing anything like this before. So in hindsight is easy to say this is what they should've done but in real time there's no playbook on how to handle this.
nwlafrog
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Tee Higgins took the tackle on by leading with his shoulder. I’m assuming that shoulder to the chest may have been the trauma that @tcudoc referenced when he explained his best guess at the time. I haven’t watched the replay more than the original once over so I’m just guessing.
hometown frog
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Don’t think it’s a hard decision that when you have a player effectively dead on the field that you suspend the game. I get that it’s unprecedented, and there’s prob no easy rule or legal clause to refer to, but restarting was the last thing that should have been expected and seemed to be what the leagues first push was for.
PineyWoodsFrog
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This incident was a reality-check for me. As a fan, we get so caught up in the performance of our players - we are so critical when a player misses a tackle, drops an interception, fumbles the ball, throws an interception, drops a pass, etc. We have so much school pride and want to see our team win so badly that the human element of the game gets forgotten. Yes, I know what happened to Hamlin is a rare occurrence, but it can happen to anyone at anytime.
