Buffalo Bills Damar Hamlin
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I couldn't open your link or the website, so can't comment on it. But your comment is interesting, and it might be coming to something like that.
In addition to equipment mods (to maybe slow the game), they should probably consider some positional weight limit restrictions as well. The players are just getting so big, especially the linemen. And there doesn't seem to be any stimulus or effort to stop that 'growth'. Yet.
Back to the injury at hand, sounding like commotio cordis, could some additional chest padding help there, in any 'at risk' sport?
Having an ophthalmologist is very smart and I didn’t know there was one for every game.
Not at all. Void is a return of wagers, no contest. You suggested counting it as a full game.
It's not a sport, they don't make huge salaries, and it's not covered (TV/radio). No interest in such.
So, the men (and women) who do it (them) know the risks and do it anyway. I guess the military would be similar as well.
If someone's primary draw to the NFL is watching guys get hurt, or even the big hits, then I think that person should feel guilty, but I just don't think that's most people anymore. Even with the speed and size of players increasing, the rules and how the game is officiated it is way less violent than it used to be, yet the NFL is as popular as ever. Of course that is still a draw for a lot of people, but there have been a lot of changes to make the game safer and less violent, and it is not hurting the popularity.
I definitely have conflict about watching football, but there's child and practically slave labor used to make clothes, mine minerals for our electronics, etc. There are MANY occupations in the US even that have a death rate that is orders of magnitude higher than playing football that pay a hell of a lot less. Logging, farming, roofing/construction, trucking, etc. all have death rates that are measured in tens of people per 100,000.
If you use a phone or computer, wear clothes, eat food and live in a house or apartment, you've paid for people to do occupations that have a drastically higher death rate than the NFL has, and it isn't close. I would've gladly traded in my HS and college roofing and farming jobs to increase my pay 1000x and cut my chance of death on the job by 1/100th or more.
We should definitely keep improving the safety of football and reconsider what we consume as entertainment. But I don't think viewing football is too high on the exploitation scale, or anything someone should feel too guilty about relative to the rest of our daily lives.
This happened to one of my friends in baseball, he continued to play, but had to wear a chest pad at the recommendation of his doctor I believe. That doctor at least believed a chest pad would help.
Was just asking you since you’re a doctor, regarding the post your response was to. Of all the medical professionals listed, who would deal with cardiac arrest from that list?
It would be a team working. Most likely EMT’s would be handling the actual compressions/bagging. They have an airway specialist to intubate. The primaries would be involved communicating care and doing a work up. The neurologist would also be checking for deficiencies as well. With that crew you can get a pretty thorough work up so the hospital knows exactly what’s coming in.
Edit* someone would also be asking the players nearby exactly what they saw happen to get a better idea.
I understand that. I was just responding to the posts about less pads making the game safer.
