Damar Hamlin
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As a Pitt fan, we go at you guys all the time. Wow, this makes the “rivalry“ seems so insignificant. Damar is a class kid, both on and off the field. He has helped so many people here in Pittsburgh, as well as Buffalo.
Yes, at first I thought it could be an upper cervical fracture. They sometimes can be in place and movement causes the fracture to shift.
Not that this is good but I think he has a fighting chance .
This usually happens to younger athletes (8-18). My son plays baseball and had us buy him some shirts with padding sewn in that are supposed to help prevent this from happening or lessen the likelihood. I immediately thought of Commotio Cordis when I heard what had happened here. I hope that Damar is going to be OK.
Please don’t start this shit
Test board on this one especially given the circumstances
Nice HIPPA violation - if not a fake tweet by a bot/troll
A quick search shows that account is gone so, yeah, a dickhead troll
This is the biggest pile of dog shit I've read in a very long time. No way that idiot is a real doctor putting private medical info onto Twitter. If he is, he should have his license revoked and shouldn't ever hold a job more important than assistant fry manager at McDonald's.
And to post something like that on here is just plain stupid, regardless of one's thoughts on the vaccine. Do better.
Had Journey Brown not retired would this have been the type of thing he'd have been at risk of?
Just curious to understand how this happened because it didn't look like the hit was what did it but what do I know, it certainly could have been.
I'm curious to hear more info from medical professionals about what happened and if it was related to a condition that he may not have known he had.
Bless Damar for a recovery. I had read that this happened to an NHL player many years ago and he was back on ice a few weeks and played another 10 years, so hopefully this is where this is headed.
Just curious to understand how this happened because it didn't look like the hit was what did it but what do I know, it certainly could have been.
I'm curious to hear more info from medical professionals about what happened and if it was related to a condition that he may not have known he had.
Bless Damar for a recovery. I had read that this happened to an NHL player many years ago and he was back on ice a few weeks and played another 10 years, so hopefully this is where this is headed.
I'm certainly no doctor. But things like this are discussed in our CPR and safety trainings.
A very poorly timed impact to the chest or electrical shock can stop the heart. And that includes administering CPR or an AED to someone who does not need either of those. Even if the victim is 100 percent healthy. Which, at least on the surface, appears to be the case here.
CPR for 10 minutes seems like a really long time without normal blood circulation to the brain and organs. Hope Hamlin can at a minimum recover to have a normal life. He is young and in peak physical condition, so that works in his favor.
Had a friend, in his mid sixties and in excellent shape, hit by a falling tree a year ago. Heart stopped three times along with other severe injuries……broken cervical vertebrae, broken ribs, collapsed lung. Neighbor was a doctor that CPR on him for over twenty minutes until a chopper got there. Kept him in a drug induced coma for a month. Two months of rehab. Six months after the accident he was back at work as home builder. Told to do light duty but on the job.
Hopefully the CPR did its job and kept oxygen flowing to the brain. They will likely keep him sedated for a days and slowly bring him out of it. We won’t know the extent of his injuries for a while.
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His uncle was interviewed earlier - said they were watching the game in Pittsburgh with his younger brother and crashed to the floor in tears while it happened. Drove to Cincy and visited all day with him. His mother traveled in the ambulance with him to the hospital.
Hamlin crashed 2x - once on field and once in hospital. Set in a prone position (stomach) to help his breathing and lungs filling with fluid, but obviously not breathing on his own yet. Sounds like its a very long road ahead.
Hamlin crashed 2x - once on field and once in hospital. Set in a prone position (stomach) to help his breathing and lungs filling with fluid, but obviously not breathing on his own yet. Sounds like its a very long road ahead.
