Bills Bengals - ambulance on the field
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Collapsed lung? That was a huge hit to the chest.
Not sure how the broadcast should handle this.
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@LuFins-Dad said in Bills Bengals - ambulance on the field:
Collapsed lung? That was a huge hit to the chest.
If I had to guess, it was some kind of arrhythmia induced by the chest trauma.
Collapsed lung wouldn't be so sudden. This was like his heart just stopped (effectively) beating.
EDIT:
We cross-posted. AED use suggests V-tach or, more likely, V-fib.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@George-K said in Bills Bengals - ambulance on the field:
@LuFins-Dad said in Bills Bengals - ambulance on the field:
Collapsed lung? That was a huge hit to the chest.If I had to guess, it was some kind of arrhythmia induced by the chest trauma.
Collapsed lung wouldn't be so sudden. This was like his heart just stopped (effectively) beating.
EDIT:
We cross-posted. AED use suggests V-tach or, more likely, V-fib.
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@George-K said in Bills Bengals - ambulance on the field:
@LuFins-Dad said in Bills Bengals - ambulance on the field:
Collapsed lung? That was a huge hit to the chest.If I had to guess, it was some kind of arrhythmia induced by the chest trauma.
Collapsed lung wouldn't be so sudden. This was like his heart just stopped (effectively) beating.
EDIT:
We cross-posted. AED use suggests V-tach or, more likely, V-fib.
But mechanical ventilation would indicate respiratory distress. Would V-tach or fib have respiratory consequences?
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commotio cordis
I've never heard that term, though I'm familiar with the physiology, and that's why I suggested it. It's an interesting phenomenon. There is a portion of the cardiac cycle, which is usually pretty robust, where an ill-timed beat can set off a cycle of arrhythmia - VT or VF. This ill-timed beat can occur without trauma - it can be "just one of those things" where a muscle fiber gets excited and decides to fire. While the rest of the heart is in the early stages of recovering its electrical cycle, this stimulus comes in at exactly the wrong tom and sets off a vicious cycle.
This "R on T" phenomenon (referring to the waves of an EKG) is something that should be treated with anti-arrhythmic drugs to prevent it from degenerating into something lethal.
An external stimulus, such as this, can cause such a premature beat, and the rest is history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commotio_cordis
The interesting thing is that this can occur more frequently with heart rates that are rapid (like with exercise).
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@LuFins-Dad said in Bills Bengals - ambulance on the field:
But mechanical ventilation would indicate respiratory distress. Would V-tach or fib have respiratory consequences?
No, no immediate consequence, but if you have a period without adequate circulation, your brainstem isn't getting blood, and that's where the respiratory centers live.
They probably intubated him on the field (or in the ambulance) and used bag ventilation until transportation.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@George-K said in Bills Bengals - ambulance on the field:
@LuFins-Dad said in Bills Bengals - ambulance on the field:
But mechanical ventilation would indicate respiratory distress. Would V-tach or fib have respiratory consequences?
No, no immediate consequence, but if you have a period without adequate circulation, your brainstem isn't getting blood, and that's where the respiratory centers live.
They probably intubated him on the field (or in the ambulance) and used bag ventilation until transportation.
NFL teams have docs in the stadium. This is interesting...
