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The entire Bills medical team should lead the charge. Except, that might be too emotional to be safe for the players.

This is awesome A little background on just why it's so awesome. Yesterday in the hospital press conference, one of the physicians stated that Damar was proned because he was suffering from ARDS (acute respiratory distress syndrome). This is common in "post resuscitation syndrome". Briefly and simply, while CPR and defibrillation save lives, the loss of circulation/oxygenation and the mechanical compression and ventilation of CPR cause an inflammatory response similar to sepsis not just in lungs but in other organs such as liver and kidneys. There is sometimes aspiration of saliva or stomach contents into the lungs as well, causing pneumonia (reducing this is the reason why intermingled compressions and breaths were nixed from CPR protocols, BTW). So in addition to needing ventilation while in the post-CPR hypothermia protocol, Dane likely needed breathing assistance because of the chemical soup and goop in his lungs (from his body's inflammatory response) hindering gas exchange. That he's been able to get off the ventilator and breathe on his own less than 96 hrs after the event, is a testament to 1) the speed and quality of the emergency response minimizing this 2) Damar's innate physical condition and health fighting it 3) the quality of the care he's been receiving in hospital treating it

Fixed it for ya.

I would be surprised, but very pleased. Rooting for them. McDaniel could end the season by improving on his W-L % in his stint as Denver HC. 7-11 would put him at 41% vs 39% in Denver. I will say that I believe Stidham really understands and is comfortable in McDaniel's offense, and Carr just never quite was. A lot depends upon if Jacobs can play. He was "limited" on Tues and DNP Weds for "personal reasons".

Yeah, CPR has changed a lot since I first certified 44 years ago. 5 compressions 2 breaths was the standard for 2-man CPR back then. Now there is no 2 man CPR.

I personally will be pulling hard for a Raiders victory this Saturday. I don't see how they can do it, but they lost by 1 point in Week 5 and they've had 3 other recent losses that could have gone either way, so I'm hoping for the best. Go Raiders! Wish playing in Vegas gave the Raiders more home-field advantage (never sounds like a home game to me, I expect it to sound like half Chiefs fans) but It Is What It Is.

WTH did I just read? I can't deny that the NFL proposal of how to handle the playoffs after the "no contest" game is unfair to the Bengals in aspects. That was going to happen. No way to make it fair to all parties that I could conceptualize But as far as telling someone the Bengals didn't "own the Bucs or Patriots" - when my team is losing 17-3 at the half as the Bengals were to the Bucs, I don't feel that they're "owning" the opponent, and I'd actually be very surprised if you felt that way in the moment. You turned it around in the 3Q, never looked back, and got the W. Very creditable. The Bills have had also had a couple wins this season where we went into halftime down and came back. So "running through the Bills" on the first two drives doesn't show you'd win, just as being down at the half to TB didn't show you'd lose.

I'll bet he's been an assistant trainer or trainer with a sports team since college. Sure, you certify and recertify - doesn't mean CPR is something he's done ever for-reals, much less regularly. That was my point. The NFL had a theoretical plan mixing athletic trainers with EMS professionals. It had never been tested. It worked. May you be bored! (on your ER shift)

The Buffalo Bills training staff? Um, No. Denny Kellington, the Bills Assistant Trainer who performed initial CPR? Unless he's been a combat medic or the like, probably has never done it for reals before. Looks like he's kind of moved from college team to college team as a trainer and then to the Bills. The paramedics and EMTs and the airway management specialist physician and the emergency medicine doc - of course you're correct. My point: the NFL has set out these protocols in which the First Responders are the athletic trainers, who run out on the field and assess dents and dings and even neurological trauma all the time, but whose experience with an actual ABC true emergency is nil - and in which they have 1 meeting a week to discuss how they'll work together with the EMS professionals. They had the protocols setting out roles and responsibilities, but they had never been actually used IRL And they worked seamlessly, with the less-experienced First Responder athletic trainers correctly identifying the emergency and doing all the right things. May you be bored!

Um, Nothing? Was this a trick question?

Yes.

I don't think he was in charge, but the athletic trainers were the ones out there initially and had to recognize the situation and radio for the rest of the response crew and equipment/start CPR They may have done the first CPR right through the pads and everything, so the guy really had to be a Beast to make it effective. I LOVE for 1st responders and EMS personnel to get their propers, but it really needs to be recognized that this, like a football game, was a Total Team Effort. Whoever cut the jersey and pads off enough to do effective defibrillation and got the facemask off to deliver oxygen, whoever called the Code (whatever their word is for cardiac arrest) and radioed for the defib and other supplies, deserves just as much credit.

Somehow fans got credit for donating directly to Oshei Children's Hospital in honor of Patricia Allen 🤷‍♂️ Charities aren't stupid. If they see an uptick in giving that looks like it has a specific motivation, it's in their interest to track and publicize it.

I'm gonna go with "No. He can't" Either meeting

I would just like to reiterate this: if you want to support this cause, donate directly to Axe ALS and specify "in honor of Tee Higgins" More straightforward than trusting a GoFundMe, even if they do try hard to be a credible organization.

Seeing Josh crack a genuine smile at that and then McDermott smile and quip "at least it was a happy song" was my fave moment. I Hear That I'm pretty sure it was something about what the NFL wanted them to do or what the NFL said to them about playing on Sunday. McDermott said "I'm not going to get into that". I'm pretty sure that McDermott's decision tree for playing on Sunday looks like this: Am I confident my players are emotionally mentally and physically ready to take the field? -> Yes -> Play Anything else? -> Go take a long walk off a short bridge

The differing language would be driven by differing timelines and responsibilities. I'm assuming here that immediate testing ruled out coronary artery disease and structural defects of the heart, straightforward tests for conditions that would need immediate treatment. The UC doctors treating Hamlin have a responsibility to him and his family to be 100% sure before they give them a diagnosis. They need to scrutinize every cardiac rhythm, deep-dive into the health of his heart muscle after recovery, and rule out every rare genetic condition before they tell him "we think this was commotio cordis and is unlikely to recur". They have nothing to gain and much to lose by speaking before they do that. The NFLPA doctors have a large membership of football players who want to know what the hell happened before they start smashing into each other this Saturday. Assuming the straightforward stuff has been excluded, they can tell their members that this seems to be the working diagnosis and it's very rare and requires a fluke placement at a fluky time. If it's not, then the other most likely cause is that it's specific to Hamlin, and also unlikely to apply to the membership at large. So they have a need to provide information now but not much to lose if the latter proves true when all is said and done.

You are correct.

We've learned something this week about how the NFL has put resources in place and trained and before each game in each stadium, holds a preparedness meeting for just this medical true emergency - which has never actually occurred on a professional football field since...1971? So these guys on the training staff stay current, year after year, skills they hope they'll never have to use. They and the physicians and opponent's staff talk through, week after week, roles and responsibilities and protocols and procedures that again, they hope they'll never have to use. Well, Monday, they had to implement those never used protocols and test those never used skills, and it all worked like a well-oiled Swiss watch. They have to be proud.

I believe you're probably correct. But there have been all kinds of crazy rumors around the internet - that Hamlin had to have CPR and be defibrillated again in the hospital, that he had a tracheostomy, that his jaw had been broken, that the ambulance waited for Hamlin's mom possibly to the detriment of his immediate care, that Hamlin's brain activity was flatlined and his family just couldn't face the decision to take him off life support, and I'm sure I'm not touching the surface. So he might have used the word that he meant, and gotten the answer he wanted when they doctors responded to the effect "I don't think anything detrimental was done" Nit: spelled Muki I think that is correct.

It's upthread

All I can say is "wow." Give props to Josh for at the end, specifically calling out to Tee Higgins and saying that it was a football play and there was nothing else he could have done, and people should not be holding him responsible, and that he hopes today's positive developments have given him some relief. One thing that caught my ear was that Josh said he had talked to Damar's father Mario on Monday, that Mario told him "my son's going to be all right" and that Mario predicted the first thing his son was going to say would be "Did we win?" Exactly as he did

https://www.buffalobills.com/photos/in-the-lab-bills-prepare-for-patriots-week-18#f5cf0734-4327-4b07-909c-bc775302687c I think notable is there appears to be a photo of Taron Johnson in a red non-contact jersey, participating in a catching drill. This would place him in Stage 4 of the NFL's concussion protocol, and would appear to be a positive sign that he might be able to play Sunday.

I think that's an amazing idea. "At Visiting Team Medical Liason and Emergency Medicine Physician....At Airway Specialist....At Team Physician...At Head Trainer..." Then the climax "At Assistant Trainer, DENNY KELLINGTON!" and the crowd goes totally bonkers

Some of those guys must feel like they're walking on air