Speculation has been swirling about what caused a young NFL player's sudden collapse during a game, with some even suggesting a COVID vaccine could be to blame. Sky's Mark Stone asks an expert.
The beat of our hearts has a particular rhythm. At the end of each beat is a wave known as the T-wave. In layman's terms, it's the moment the heart resets before the next beat.
"Within a few seconds, no blood reaches the brain, usually between six and eight seconds, and then within 10 to 15 seconds, complete blood circulation comes to a standstill," Mr Aljabri said. "If I were the treating doctor, I would still run a battery of tests to make sure that now we're not missing something else. And that includes looking at pre-existing structural heart disease," Mr Aljabri said.
"Now, there are people talking about the possibility that he had some kind of silent subclinical myocarditis that's associated with aMr Aljabri added:"We have a witnessed direct, blunt trauma to the chest, a witnessed loss of consciousness within seconds, a confirmed shock rhythm because he needed to be shocked with a defibrillator. All of that, plus, hopefully the absence of any existing structural disease, will make the most likely diagnosis of commotio cordis, a confirmed one.
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