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UPDATE: Bill’s safety Damar Hamlin now awake and aware after Heart failure during MNF

Old Glory

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The way he got hit in the chest reminded me of this:


But on a punt return, late in the second quarter, a Knights player blasted Coleman in the chest with a block he never saw coming. Something went wrong with his heart, he lost consciousness
 

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Saw this mentioned elsewhere. Seems to fit.
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I did a deep dive into this a few years ago. It's quite interesting.

"The small window of vulnerability explains why it is a rare event. Considering that the total cardiac cycle has a duration of 1 second (for a base cardiac frequency of 60 beats per minute), the probability of a mechanical trauma within the window of vulnerability is 1 to 3 percent only"
 

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The way he got hit in the chest reminded me of this:


But on a punt return, late in the second quarter, a Knights player blasted Coleman in the chest with a block he never saw coming. Something went wrong with his heart, he lost consciousness

This is what I thought of
 

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