of the great work of the toy drive had accomplished site. video you re seeing, is where he signed autographs and had fun with kids. on the gofundme page, hamlin wrote this. thank you so much for supporting, me on and off the field. i m great to have the opportunity to work, with you to help make the holiday season a little brighter, for the kids in our community. for those of you watching at home, if you like to donate, go to the gofundme. com, and search, for the chasing as foundation, community toy drive. we will treat it out, right out of the program. and on that, note i wish you all, i very safe night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, we are thinking of damar hamlin
seeing additional photos and reporting like this, but you know when these types of hits happen you, can you the players know the people in the field now they knew almost instantaneously. now, hopefully he ll be okay because of the swift nature of the medical care that was given there that we re talking, of course about damar. hamblin is a safety for the buffalo bills. they were playing against the cincinnati back. angles. after a hit, which by all accounts is a good clean hit the person i m sure who made the hit because just beside themselves, um, but in the four family, jim, i can only imagine what the family of damar hamlin is going through. um you re playing in the nfl. you re on monday night football. um you know, it s the new year. um and then for this to happen, i can t even imagine the trauma that that family is going through right now. well, it s just awful when you sit
there were blast that they almost never happened, and now is a time when we re living this nightmare. stephanie, this happened on sports biggest stage, it s a national audience, so it s hard to say, how often does this really happen, i don t know if we have great data on that, so it however said this episode is if there is one and we re all hoping for a rapid recovery from mr. hamlin if there s one silver lining to question this should be a learning that football is more violent than just injuries to the head. so, yes absolutely, we should be evaluating, targeting below that. thoracic cavity, to the chest, let s go quickly, just to emphasize something we talked about earlier, got a hard at cpr dot o r g, or go to a red
wondering what happened, it appears that mr. hamlin, by all accounts is a very, healthy professional athlete, 24-year-old young man, ended up giving a violent but otherwise pretty routine tackle, where the impact was focused on his left chest right where his heart is. you know the difference between writing your left chest based on your sternum. so we re focused on the left basically from them when the video can show us. he got, out which is a good sign, and you can back them, and apparently lost his pulse. so we had cardiac arrest, that s why cpr is implemented immediately. and the questions that still remain outstanding,. and we get to the hospital of course in a second, is when exactly, in addition to cpr, could mr. hamlin potentially receive an electrical shock, why did he need an electrical shock? it appears that what caused all this, is something called commodio cortis. for those who actually want to