Damar Hamlin may have suffered "remarkably rare" condition, Dr. Agus says

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Buffalo Bills defensive back Damar Hamlin may have suffered a "remarkably rare" condition when he collapsed on the field during Monday night's game against the Cincinnati Bengals, CBS News medical contributor Dr. David Agus told "CBS Mornings."

The Bills said Hamlin suffered cardiac arrest following a hit in the game. Video shows that after the hit, he stood up, took a few steps and fell to the ground.

While it's not yet clear what caused Hamlin's heart to suddenly stop beating, Agus believes he sustained blunt force trauma to his chest "in the exact right spot, at the exact right moment during his heartbeat," which caused his heart to have an arrhythmia — "not beat effectively to push blood to the brain."

Agus suspects Hamlin's heart was in ventricular fibrillation.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/damar-hamlin-may-have-suffered-remarkably-rare-condition-dr-agus-says/ar-AA15VTp5

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. I have said prayers for him.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

2. More imprecise writing from msn, how shocking ...

It's not that he 'suffered a "remarkably rare" condition', it's that he was 'a victim of a rare confluence of events'.

Two totally different things.

This widespread lack of precision in scientific/medical reporting in the M$M has just grown so tiresome ...

Damar Hamlin

[Auggie]

4. +1

[ProfessorGAC]

6. Or Could Have Said...

..."rare set of conditions."
But, you're right. That's sketchy writing.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

7. I enjoyed your subtle elucidation between 'medical condition' and the general rhetorical meaning

of the word 'condition', as they do in fact imply different definitions.

[ProfessorGAC]

8. Yeah, In My Work...

...we referred to the status of critical parameters of a reaction process to be "conditions". So, I've used it with that meaning 10,000 times or more.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. Also could be a dissected aorta

partial or total. Blunt force can tear the aorta from the chest, allowing a bleed into the chest.

[BrightKnight]

5. John 11:35 comes to mind. I pray for his recovery.

The NFL should require pads that resist blunt force chest trauma.

I know of a child that was killed when a baseball struck his chest in a high school baseball game, I hope that school athletic organization are learning from this.

[Rocknation]

9. Video of exactly what happened has finally surfaced

Last edited Wed Jan 4, 2023, 12:30 PM - Edit history (3)

Which concurs with the doctor's theory of blunt force trauma to the heart:
https://rocktivity.com/video/damarHamlin.webm


Rocknation