disruption of the heart, because of that sudden violent impact to the left chest. kevin, the nfl is where, very much, of the dangers of head injuries, they have been very conscious of what that means, in their field. they also, it seems pay more attention to any possible pre-existing conditions in players. how extensive is the medical checking the early trading stage each year when these teams gather. it is various instances. it really begins at the high school level. it gets more intensive at the college level. and at the nfl level where you are investing tens of millions of dollars and hundreds of millions of dollars in these laborers. it is extremely expensive. i mentioned ryan clerk earlier and ryan clark suffered from
expect to hear from the hospital? he has been there. damar hamlin has not been at the hospital for and our yet. in the timing of a treatment like this, if it is going well, when would you expect the first possible update we might hear? pretty soon, lawrence. i would expect before midnight east coast time. there will be some sense of what the initial resuscitation looks like once mr. hamlin has reached the hospital. he is probably in a coronary care unit, in an intensive care unit for the heart, and some of the questions will be is he being actually often, after a cardiac arrest, you cool the body and make it hypothermic for 36 hours. are they doing that? is he moving? dr. gupta, let me please interrupt you with an update.
the first few minutes of this occurring. so he likely got cpr, and then they looked at the, pads and most likely he got an electrical shock to see if they can convince his heart out of that condition, and resume normal activity, and start beating again normally. it s probably what happened. there are other medications like epinephrine to make sure the heartbeat strongly, there s enough damage to the rest of the body. might be adjuncts to make sure the body is functioning well, a bicarbonate, calcium, some of the reactions here. and really the critical piece here to ensure survival and neurological recovery, it is time to formulation, was that within a few minutes, if it is lawrence. it s key that it s the likelihood really shoots up. especially out of cause hospital cardiac arrest, it s
will it fundamentally it s not going to change the game so much that from a medical standpoint, what i worry about with mr. hamlin again, let s hope he has his heart function right now, that is heart is beating, that he is getting the support of measures in the icu. i m sure that is what is happening right now. but this is a serious, thankfully rare consequence, i think the question about his recovery here and some of the questions we need to solicit, has he gone back into ventricular fillet variation what is his heart function looking like? is he in heart failure? often, the heart is failing even after the initial resuscitation, so is he requiring a balloon pump. that is something that supports the heart in one of these major
electrical activity of the heart muscle. the heart has its own electrical circuitry, it s how the heartbeats. that s why they need to defer relate this part of his stops. now have in the detail here. but it results, is essential for the ventilation. hearts electrical activity, because of the sudden impact on the left side of your chest, gets disrupted, no blood is able to flow, the heart is basically quivering, the brain is not getting blood, the hearts not getting blood, to other organs. and effectively, right now, so they had to do cpr, probably assisted. again, i don t have the details, with what is called an aed. automated external defibrillator, for viewers out, they re probably well familiar, many of them with these. you put pads on an individual, and i will tell you whether or not you need to show off that individual, whether they re in