Damar Hamlin suffered a “cardiac arrest” during the Buffalo Bills’ game against the Cincinnati Bengals Monday night, leaving many questioning: what caused a 24-year-old healthy athlete to suddenly collapse on the field?
While it is extremely rare, it is most commonly diagnosed in athletes.
Everett is not alone in his analysis. Multiple medical experts speculate that Hamlin suffered an episode of the rare condition. "Most of us know a lot about the heart anatomy because preseason all of these elite athletes undergo cardiac screening. So sometimes that's just an EKG or a stress test and other types of MRIs, so we have a really good understanding what the anatomy of the athlete's heart is," Cole said."And so hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is not something that's subtle, and it's something that, you know, we would screen a player for in preseason.
Cardiac arrest, however, occurs when there is a sudden disruption to the electrical malfunction in the heart, which causes the heart to be unable to pump oxygen to the brain, lungs and other parts of the body. A person experiencing sudden cardiac arrest will collapse and not have a pulse.
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