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particular. jake, one of the things that you worry about when somebody has cardiac arrest is that there was simply not enough oxygenated blood getting to the brain, and you don t know until someone has woken up from sedation and is able to talk. he is not able to talk because of the intubation, but he is able to communicate with writing, and moving his hands and feet. but he is described as critically ill, jake, because it has only been 2 1/2 days, and so there may be periods of the roller coaster still in terms of the recovery which you will see with critically ill patients, and maybe not a linear track of improvement. so that is what i heard. it was a quick response, and we kept hearing that, and we got details of what that means. on the field, he had cpr performed, and he had defibrillation performed. the defibrillation was performed to restore normal breathing restored, and he had a breathing tube in place, and paramedics came out, and the team doctors came out, and ....
Update on demar hamlin who is the buffalo bill s safety who received a cardiac arrest that was shocking, but the doctors had good news about the substantial improvement that they were significantly concerned after he was brought in. the neurological condition and fitness are intact, they said, although obviously a lot more has to happen before they can come to any long-term conclusions. let s bring in the chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta, and can you give us the headlines that you heard from your medical point of view? yes, those are the headlines, jake. 2 1/2 days roughly since the injury and the cardiac arrest, and that is a substantial amount of improvement that they are describing not only in terms of the overall status, but also as you are pointing out the neurological status in ....