CC happens when impact is made within a very small window of time during the cardiac cycle. It's very rare because the window is so small. Just comes down to bad luck pretty much.
Buffalo Bills Damar Hamlin
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From my very limited understanding of the treatment of such cardiovascular events, hypothermia treatment is being used less frequently right now after a few studies have failed to demonstrate any positive results of it. It still takes some time to recover and additional procedures (e.g., installing a pacemaker) may be needed to resolve underlying or continuing issues. So far as I'm aware, that he got professional CPR so quickly should help prevent the worst in terms of brain health.
Will do, thank you. She works weekends in CR and three nights at a hospital in Champaign, IL.
SVP would have been about three hours from being ready to go on the air normally at that point. If he was even at the studio when it happened last night, he wasn't in makeup or prepared to go on air since he normal does so at around 11 pm Iowa time after Monday night football.
ESPN did exactly what you wanted, as quickly as they probably could. This is a weird thing for people to zero in on.
Buck and Aikman did a really good job too. I think it helped that they weren't on camera and they could just talk.
Who says he was even in the studio then? He wouldn't have been on air for a few more hours.
You may get a different county also. Always ask if you have the county you are in or if you don’t know, say do I have county dispatch for cedar falls? That will help speed things up. Don’t assume when calling in a cell.
All I'm saying is that Booger and the other two looked extremely uncomfortable, ESPN could have cut away and scrolled a message. I'm not zeroing in on anything, it was an observation I made last night while watching things unfold live.
Three miles south of North Memorial right off of Theo Wirth. North is a bit closer to me than Hennepin Ctr dwntn and a clear shot up the parkway. I think there is some Twin Cities snobbiness about North not being a good hospital just because it's not in Edina which is sort of a dumb take IMHO.
I knew North was a trauma ctr, just did not think about "levels" before. Not like you don't hear about shooting and auto accident victims taken there. Had surgery there decades ago and one standout memory from that was helicopters flying in and out at all hours. NIL used to fly those as the respiratory guy out of Billings before he went back to school to be an anesthesiologist assistant. No more danger flying for him.
I would argue that professional TV people reacting as human beings in a situation like that - yes it's uncomfortable, but life is sometimes - is much better than some sterile, scrolling message.
And besides, if they'd put up a scrolling message, people would criticize them for their callous response.
The tiering of hospitals can make it rough on ambulances. Technically we are not supposed to pass any hospital that has a tier level appropriate to what we needed and/or is higher than what we are at. We have a local county hospital close that we can go to which allows way more advanced treatment than what we can deliver going down the road. There are times that we have been forced to drive 4 hours to Omaha or 3.25 hours to Sioux Falls due to limited availability of beds.
If Medicaid, we had a stepped up regional hospital refuse the transfer while we were at the local county hospital and we had to go to IC instead. It got so often that it was going to bury our service so we had to say we will go to the regional one due to laws, but if you want IC to avoid the cost, you will pay us Medicare rates so we can at least cover our costs. 5-6 of those and management said to go to the regional.
Nothing wrong with North at all. My fiance is at Regions. It's really interesting how traumas get sent to different hospitals in the cities and beyond. Regions actually gets a lot of flights in from western Wisconsin...of course along with any trauma in the east metro.
And not to mention what someone else had said earlier, if ESPN put up a message or just played commercials/other content, I think a lot of people would’ve fairly assumed Hamlin had gotten worse or even passed.
I think everyone involved last night did a tremendous job of providing perspective and also providing updates in a very delicate situation
That's exactly what happened to me. I called 911 and I told them I was in St. Charles. They switched counties and then I had to figure out exactly where because I had never been to St. Charles before.
In high school, a bunch of us would go play tackle football at the UNI-Dome on nights the turf was open in the colder months. And in the summer months, we'd play outside on a football field. Waaaaay more breaking down than going for a big hit.
That dome turf was almost like playing on a good basketball court. Not much cushion.
It was not pleasant to be tackled on that thing with no pads and no turf tape, that's for sure.
They went cheap with their last turf also. It’s like they got the field turf but decided to not use the rubber BBs with it.
