Another high-profile incident occurred on January 3, 2023 during Monday Night Football when Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin experienced commotio cordis after Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Tee Higgins's helmet struck him in the chest as he was making a tackle. (wikipedia.org)
That scene remains one of the most Googled Latin phrases, only recently supplanted by the term " commotio cordis " after the cardiac arrest of Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin on Monday Night Football on Jan. 2, 2023, and subsequent theorizing about what caused his collapse. (ems1.com)
Right after news broke that Damar Hamlin collapsed suddenly during a primetime NFL game, anti-vaccination activists immediately claimed that the 24 year-old NFL athlete was a victim of COVID-19 vaccine sudden adult death syndrome (SADS)! (rojakpot.com)
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Commotio cordis can occur only upon impact within a narrow window of about 40 milliseconds in the cardiac electrical cycle, explaining why it is so rare. (wikipedia.org)
Due to ventricular fibrillation and resultant cessation of the cardiac output to vital organs, commotio cordis has a high fatality rate, indicated by two studies to be 72-75 percent, with survival decreasing substantially if effective resuscitation was not performed within three minutes of the impact event. (wikipedia.org)
Commotio cordis is a very rare event, but nonetheless it is often considered when an athlete presents with sudden cardiac death. (wikipedia.org)
Treatment of commotio cordis is not different from any other cardiopulmonary emergency associated with a nonperfusing cardiac rhythm. (medscape.com)
This is apparently a common enough phenomenon that many forward-thinking physicians recommend sedation for those victims who appear to be awake during their cardiac arrest resuscitation. (ems1.com)
If the AED senses that the victim is in cardiac arrest, it advises the operator in a matter of seconds to push a button to deliver a shock. (momsteam.com)
Several physicians have said that Hamlin's collapse was due to commotio cordis, a cardiac event that occurs when a player is hit in the chest. (wegoviral.com)
Commotio cordis is a severe cardiac condition, and while it has improved over the years, it is still a deadly ailment. (wegoviral.com)
During these past 50 years, tremendous research has been conducted to evaluate techniques, medications, and devices designed to advance the care of victims of cardiac arrest. (medscape.com)
The reader should note that the bulk of guideline recommendations, as in past years, are concentrated on victims of primary cardiac arrest and are not necessarily relevant to victims of pulmonary arrest (eg, drowning, drug overdose, etc). (medscape.com)
Only a minority of cardiac arrest victims receive bystander CPR. (medscape.com)
Early on, Dr. Peter McCullough agreed that Hamlin may have just been unlucky enough to suffer a commotio cordis event like the media and various talking-heads are claiming. (heartdisease.news)
National Commotio Cordis Registry2
From 1996 to spring 2007, the US National Commotio Cordis Registry had 188 cases recorded, with about half occurring during organized sports. (wikipedia.org)
The National Commotio Cordis Registry reported 224 cases between 1995 and 2010, according to a 2010 New England Journal of Medicine article , though many cases likely go unrecorded. (wvia.org)
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Commotio cordis (Latin, "agitation or disruption of the heart") is a rare disruption of heart rhythm that occurs as a result of a blow to the area directly over the heart (the precordial region) at a critical instant during the cycle of a heartbeat. (wikipedia.org)
It occurs most frequently in baseball when the hard ball strikes an unprotected chest, although there have been cases of commotio cordis in players using a chest protector. (wikipedia.org)
Baseball is the most common sport in which commotio cordis occurs in regions where it is played, particularly among teenage boys who are batting or playing the positions of pitcher or catcher. (wikipedia.org)
For victims of witnessed ventricular fibrillation arrest, as occurs in commotio cordis, early cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and rapid defibrillation can significantly increase the chances of survival. (medscape.com)
Commotio cordis is Latin for "agitation of the heart," and occurs as a result of a sharp blow to the chest during the heart's relative refractory period, inducing a mechanical R-on-T phenomenon and resultant ventricular fibrillation (VF) arrest. (ems1.com)
When an incident like commotio cordis occurs, a local sports medicine doctor said that not only is it important to have the equipment on hand but to ensure those around are trained to use it. (yourerie.com)
Commotio cordis is an often lethal disruption of the heart's rhythm, that occurs as a result of a blow to the chest. (rojakpot.com)
While commotio cordis can only happen when the blunt force trauma to the heart occurs at exactly in the ascending phase of the T wave, this risk is escalated during sporting activities, as the heart rate rises and increases the risk of a blow to the chest triggering Commotio cordis . (rojakpot.com)
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It goes on to say that about half of commotio cordis cases have been reported in young athletes competing in amateur organized sports who "receive a blow to the chest that is usually (but not always) delivered by a projectile used to play the game. (wvia.org)
In the case of commotio cordis , this R-on-T phenomenon is mechanically induced by a sharp blow to the chest. (ems1.com)
When EMS arrived 15 minutes later, Acompora was in ventricular fibrillation (VF) due to commotio cordis, a lethal blow directly over the heart during a brief-but-vulnerable phase of repolarization. (firechief.com)
Experts believe the most likely cause was a rare phenomenon called commotio cordis , which can happen if a person receives a blow to the chest between beats of the heart. (motherjones.com)
He likely experienced a rare complication called commotio cordis where a blow to the chest disrupts the heart's rhythm. (thetoptens.com)
Social media doctors like Chris Haddock were quick to provide their expertise immediately after the incident, blaming the incident on an extremely rare condition called "commotio cordis" where, as Haddock explains, "a blow to the chest at a precise moment in the electrical cycle stops the heart. (heartdisease.news)
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Commotio cordis may occur in other sports via impacts to the chest by elbows or heads. (wikipedia.org)
St. Louis Blues defenceman Chris Pronger experienced commotio cordis during a playoff game on May 11, 1998 against the Detroit Red Wings when a slapshot from Dmitri Mironov struck his chest. (wikipedia.org)
Commotio cordis is most commonly seen in sports like baseball, hockey and lacrosse, which involve what Madias calls "blunt projectiles that impact the chest wall" - like a ball or a puck. (wvia.org)
The stereotypical commotio cordis victim is the slender pre-adolescent baseball player who takes a line drive in the chest. (ems1.com)
a seemingly innocuous counterpunch to the chest, the victim returns to his position and collapses several seconds later. (ems1.com)
The electric current is delivered through the victim's chest wall through adhesive electrode pads.The shock will then hopefully restore the victims normal heart rhythm. (la12.org)
Clay had suffered commotio cordis after being hit in the chest with a lacrosse ball. (thprd.org)
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Karen Acompora and her husband, John, learned all they could about the "arrhythmic event" called commotion cordis that killed their son, which, at the time, was nearly as tough to find as an AED in a public school. (iaedjournal.org)
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D'Amico said commotio cordis can be lethal if resuscitation efforts are not successful or if it does not self-terminate. (yourerie.com)
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Medical professionals and researchers have found that the time between the collapse and the start of the defibrillation is crucial for the SCA victim to be brought back to consciousness. (cprcertificationaustin.com)
Unfortunately, because of other underlying medical or heart problems, a victim of SCA who is in VF may not survive even if defibrillation is done promptly and correctly. (suddencardiacarrestuk.org)
Resuscitation1
If cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) combined with use of an on-site automated external defibrillator is employed within three minutes of the impact, survival from commotio cordis can be as high as 58 percent. (wikipedia.org)
Buffalo Bills1
After watching Monday Night Football with the Buffalo Bills and Cincinnati Bengals, a cardiologist of LECOM said his first thought was commodio cordis after Hamlin's injury. (yourerie.com)
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While Hamlin's team and family have yet to confirm exactly what happened, many of the doctors following his case online have narrowed it down to one likely cause: commotio cordis (kuh-MOH-dee-oh KOR-dis). (wvia.org)
Athletes1
There are several causes of this type of cardiovascular event, but the most common among athletes is commotio cordis. (wegoviral.com)
Incident1
Almost all (96%) of the victims were male, the mean age of the victims during that period was 14.7 years, and fewer than one in five survived the incident. (wikipedia.org)
Heart's1
Doctors say that a person suffering from commotio cordis will experience a very narrow window during which their heart's electrical signaling will be interrupted. (wegoviral.com)
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Commotio cordis is "usually, though not invariably, fatal," according to the journal article, which also cites registry data showing that its survival rates have increased over time. (wvia.org)
Event1
Unfortunately, findings from with commotio cordis have been limited mostly to postmortem studies on individuals who died as a result of the event. (medscape.com)
Arrest1
many of you may have personally witnessed a VF arrest and noticed that the victim may have their eyes open and spasmodically breathe in the first few moments of VF arrest. (ems1.com)
Accidents1
Another quarter of commotio cordis events have been caused by recreational activities played at home or on playgrounds, and the final 25% have involved incidents like scuffles, fights and accidents in non-sports settings. (wvia.org)
Experience1
In general, patients who experience an episode of commotio cordis are free of abnormal laboratory, imaging, or histologic findings, except for abnormalities revealed by electrocardiography (ECG). (medscape.com)
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TMZ Sports obtuvo imágenes del incidente que condujo a la detención de Adam "Pacman" Jones en un aeropuerto. (tmz.com)
Seventy-two percent of SCA victims were reported by their parents to have at least one cardiovascular symptom before SCA, with fatigue (44%) and near-syncope/lightheadedness (30%) the two most common. (jabfm.org)
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Over a period of assessment from 2006-2012, the survival rate was 58 percent, which was an improvement over the years 1993-2006 when only 34 percent of victims survived. (wikipedia.org)
Ninety percent of SCA victims are still dying. (firechief.com)
The cardiologist said recovery from commotio cordis is dependent on the severity of the injury and if nerve damage is a factor. (yourerie.com)
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He added that there is a slim window of time to administer proper care to the victim. (yourerie.com)
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Commotio cordis is a rare phenomenon, but one every medical professional should know about and understand. (ems1.com)
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Also subverted with Jinpachi Nekota, who was a victim of a "rabbit punch" that caused him punch drunk disease (see below), but that happened sixty years ago and he's still alive. (tvtropes.org)