How to SAVE a LIFE - Recognize Sudden Cardiac Arrest in Athletes

This video is a compilation of real-life cases of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) in an athlete. The footage shows the actual collapse and SCA event of professional athletes (Damar Hamlin, Marc-Vivien Foé, and Christian Eriksen), a college athlete (Keyontae Johnson), and several high school (Claire Crawford) and youth athletes. This video will help you promptly recognize SCA in a collapsed and unresponsive athlete.
SCA is the leading cause of sudden death in athletes during sports and exercise. SCA is a life-threatening condition typically caused by an electrical disturbance in the heart known as ventricular fibrillation. When an athlete collapses with SCA, they often show signs such as having their eyes open and rolled back; brief seizure-like activity, shaking or twitching; or continued breathing movements after collapse that later deteriorate to occasional (agonal) gasping. SCA is a survivable event through prompt recognition, initiation of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), and rapid use of an automated external defibrillator (AED).

[@austinmcanena7257]

Thanks for putting this together Dr. Drezner. As a former college soccer player and 2x SCA survivor, this is very hard for me to watch but so important for the public to recognize how SCA shows up in sports and how we need to respond with the cardiac chain of survival.

[@Muck-qy2oo]

What were the reasons for your SCAs?

[@user-jh4zz5od6x]

Thanks for creating and sharing this importance message Jon!

[@riceexperiment]

That's such a great summary

[@rockwallcpr]

Please add: Someone (maybe two or three people) must greet the ambulance so they know exactly where to enter (building, sports complex).

[@ICU306]

They went into V-tach. The seizure like activity they go into, happens every time our patients go into v-tach and is hallmark for it. Definitely cardiac arrest

[@schoc13]

I cried watching this

[@leonardtankeng6323]

Great summary, should be over emphasized in low resource settings where even in professional leagues the AED remains luxury

[@dutchmilk]

what you forgot is to remind people not to gather around a collapsed person or yanking their heads. I keep seeing this in football. It will only injure the person more.

[@Dominic7449]

This is so scary, how do I prevent this?

[@ratfood3875]

Don't take the vaccine

[@arleneowens8273]

You can’t. Hence the sudden. Just know what to do once it occurs or you suspect it.

[@Dominic7449]

@@arleneowens8273 does it happen most of the time where your working out or running

[@ernestcoffman1870]

don't get the jab!!! FACTS!!!! 1500 cardiac arrest incidents before 2020... then 2300+ in two years since the COVID vaccine and boosters!!!! only an idiot won't make the connection!!!!

[@YxYzYx]

Stay away from jabs ❤

[@adamrafeedie1543]

Why does this happen, I’m honestly scared I feel their have been a ton of athletes recently

[@ICU306]

Because the heart is beating so fast the can go into afib, and when you into afib, you go into vtach, which is technically cardiac arrest

[@riceexperiment]

They are born with it, weren't screened, and/or they take preworkout supplements that cause heart problems

[@Dominic7449]

@@ICU306I’m scared to exercise now, I probably won’t do it anymore

[@jackandrews7878]

80% of all sudden cardiac arrest cases are caused by undiagnosed congenital heart defects that presented no symptoms for almost all of the athletes life up until the SCA event

[@Dominic7449]

@@jackandrews7878 so how do I prevent cardiac arrest that’s scary

[@jacksonlsu]

You forgot to add never take the booster shots.

[@aphidaks]

is this a joke or are you being serious (pls no wooosh)

[@ICU306]

Your heart beating extremely fast during a game can cause cardiac arrest. But you dumb nuts can’t comprehend that somehow

[@DepressedCowboysFan88]

🤦🏽‍♂️

[@ernestcoffman1870]

How to save a life..... DON'T GET THE JAB

[@thomasmatthewharris1980]

Heart issues have multiple causes, so it won't stop it