you for including me in this important conversation. so you re quite right in pointing out that none of us can speak with any authority as to the circumstances that damar finds himself in. but there is something here that s really important for us to flush out. and this is what will was just talking about. i want to just unpack that for a second. will used to turn a frame comodio cortis the drivetive mes commotion or activity in the heart and it turns out to be the case that when trauma occurs, blunt trauma, that means non-penetrating trauma, at just the right time in the cardiac cycle in just the right location in the chest wall, heart rhythms can be interrupted and a very disastrous rhythm called ventricular fibrillation can actually be provoked. this is something that was first
their posts tonight. well, this is not i think that everyone was on their post tonight. but you can never have too much of what you just talked about. where s the defibrillator, is it close enough. everyone poured on the field to do cpr, was it soon enough. was everyone ready for this? again we said before we think he just dropped which makes you think of ventricular fibrillation and a quivering of the heart can occur if he had the blow to the chest at exactly the wrong time. this is a contact sport so the more the better. i would agree with everything michelle just said except one thing about concussions you can never have enough about that. yes the nfl protocol hats stiffened up, that has nothing to do with this case of course, but hits to the head is a big problem in the nfl and in football in general so we need more of that. again looks like a very rapid response here, got him off to the hospital. he made it out of cpr it looks
it goes into ventricular fibrillation and then starts fibrillating, that s when you re in cardiac arrest. i will tell you a lot of us are looking at that video carefully to identify what was going on. now we re hearing he was pulseless, he was in cardiac arrest and that pretty much kind of confirms what had happened here. and, doctor, in a situation like that obviously the speed of which somebody can be administered cpr is essential. it was administered for nine minutes and we have it confirmed his heartbeat was restored on the pitch. what does that make you think of immediately? are you concerned about him being deprived of oxygen or further damage? obviously it s very difficult and we don t want to speculate but what would your primary concerns be? the primary concern is the length of time that he was not having cardiac activity. it sounds as though cpr was administered immediately.
we just got out of the covid era where wherever you hear about a patient needing assistance breathing you start to panic. is this a little different? no. and i saw the video. i saw what happened and my thoughts are prayers with the family. i m praying for him, a young, healthy athlete. but what we saw is you saw the orange helmet of the opposite team player ram right into damar s chest. that is a clear blunt force trauma to the chest. and like dr. siegel said that can put your heart into an arrhythmia. that can make your heart stop. so whenever your heart isn t beating properly, when it s quivering when it goes into ventricular fibrillation you have to take action immediately within 1-2 minutes. every minute that passes is a reduced chance of survival and god bless the medics there on the field, they got to him immediately they started cpr immediately because if your heart isn t beating patrol you re not getting blood flow to the brain or rest of your body
the interior chest, it has to have been at the exact time when the heart is getting prepared to beat again during that rehabilitation cycle. this is exceedingly rare, however it is almost like getting struck by lightning at is that rare. it has to be acute trauma to the chest, just at the ripe moment. looking at how this is unfolding, you watch that in the video, the trauma, the trauma to the chest is pretty consistent with what you would expect to induce this. the second is the way he stood up and then fell backward, you see that kind of fall, or sink when you have a cardiac event, dysrhythmia of the heart not beating. a pumps blood up to the brain, that causes you to pass out. it is all developing, so it is this phenomenon, and then of course he was. almost immediately after he fell down again indicating that lethal rhythm or a ventricular