Bills announce Damar Hamlin showing 'remarkable improvement,' appears to be 'neurologically intact'

[melm00se]

Source: Yahoo Sports

The Buffalo Bills have been through it since Monday when their teammate Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field, but they had incredible news to share on Thursday morning: Hamlin is continuing to improve, and at a "remarkable" rate.


Over the past day, Hamlin has shown that he "appears to be neurologically intact," which means he is responsive, making purposeful movements (i.e. planned movements that he is directing with his brain), and following commands. While the Bills didn't reveal more than that, one of Hamlin's teammates, cornerback Kaiir Elam, tweeted that Hamlin is awake.

Read more: https://sports.yahoo.com/bills-announce-damar-hamlin-showing-remarkable-improvement-appears-to-be-neurologically-intact-160636440.html

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YES!

[irisblue]

1. Praying for him and his family.

[electric_blue68]

2. Good to hear.

[Upthevibe]

3. melm00se

Thanks for the post....

I've been sending healing vibes his way....💥💥💥

[iluvtennis]

4. So grateful. Thank you Lord!. n/t

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. This is good news

Link to tweet

[SoFlaBro]

6. This is a fantastic development and news I was not expecting to hear.

Several people posters said to me that they expected a negative outcome for certain.

[milestogo]

10. I was hopeful for a good outcome.

He had immediate, expert care and he's in top physical condition. If anyone can survive this he can.

That said, we don't know if he'll be able to return to the life he had - but being alive is pretty awesome.

[Mysterian]

7. Great news

He's a good kid with his whole life ahead of him.

[lark]

8. This is such good news.

When mom was on the vent for the 2nd time for heart failure, she could not react to commands, was just too weak and ended up not making it. I was so afraid this was going to be repeated, but thankfully he wasn't a frail 90 year old patient so the news is quite positive!

[SunSeeker]

9. Yes, the difference is his heart was healthy before it stopped.

His heart stopped because of the impact, not heart disease.

[womanofthehills]

15. We do not know for sure he had a healthy heart

But I assume a huge worry has been brain damage because his heart stopped.

[SunSeeker]

16. Doctors believe his heart was healthy; it stopped because of commotio cordis.

Buffalo Bills' Damar Hamlin's heart was most likely healthy before collapse

The right hit at the wrong time may have triggered a rare phenomenon known as commotio cordis, heart experts suggest.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/cardiac-arrest-causes-buffalo-bills-damar-hamlin-rcna64020

As the above article points out, NFL players undergo extensive physicals each year, and heart checks. Even my kid who plays college soccer had to undergo a physical by the team doctor who checked his heart.

If Damar Hamlin had that impact to his chest from Tee Higgins' helmet just a few milliseconds before or after that particularly vulnerable point in the heart's electrical cycle, he would have been fine. This doctor explains it well:

And yes, because his heart did stop, there is a huge worry about brain (and other organs) damage. So far, he is looking pretty good...

[Coventina]

11. Fantastic news!

[melm00se]

12. A press conference was held at the UC Medical Center

and the doctors said that while he is not completely out of the woods yet, it does appear that he is neurologically intact (evidently he asked via writing "Who won?" ).

The word out of Orchard Park is that the Bills have started to prepare for the Patriots in earnest now that they know how Hamlin is doing.

[Hassler]

13. And antivax moron Kevin Sorbet is having a sad.

[TrogL]

14. I've been through this

Craftygal suffered a potassium related heart event and was declared dead by paramedics. They then performed CPR and got out the fancy machines and got her back. She spent a day in induced coma in ICU. I walked in a day later expecting the worst and she was sitting up watching Dr. Phil and crocheting.

[melm00se]

17. Getting better all the time

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/35391812/bills-damar-hamlin-breathing-own-tube-removed

[elocs]

18. Great news but what's unfortunate is that the general public will base their belief

that cpr is largely successful on this case and all of the successful ones they see on tv when the actual success of cpr survival is nowhere near even 50%, especially when not done in the hospital or by trained medical personnel. So Hamlin has been very successful, but his case is not the norm. Plus "survival" does not mean the person saved from dying will have the same quality of life or even anywhere near that. This is especially true of elderly adults, of which I am one, who stand a good chance of ending up being a potted plant in the hallway of a nursing home after cpr.
So it is good for more people to learn to do cpr properly, understanding that it is a physically exhausting process as well as being physically hard on the person getting cpr.