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Back from the dead---A soccer player shocked back to life

submitted by SFOGuy

1 decade 2 months 3 weeks ago

Sort of amazing. Old (2009) but still pretty cool. A Dutch soccer player, obviously otherwise healthy, but with a known heart rhythm problem, suddenly drops literally dead on the soccer field. However, he had an Implantable Cardiac Defibrillator (ICD---a device that senses heart rhythms, and once implanted, can shock the heart back into a working rhythm again)---and makes full recovery (though, perhaps obviously, isn't put back in the game)...

Pretty neat application of modern medicine, some computer science (the algorithm that recognizes the arrhythmia and the processor that crunches the data), and cardiology.

I'd put it in a "Medicine" channel, but I don't think there is one.

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"Soccer player Anthony Van Loo was diagnosed years ago with a heart condition, but was again allowed to play after the implantation of a defibrillator. This was done a few years back. Last weekend, playing with his team Roeselare in Belgian First Division, he had an actual cardiac arrhythmia during the game. After a few seconds the defibrillator diagnosed the arrhythmia (his heart is supposed to have reached 300 bpm for a few seconds) and autonomously administered a corrective jolt, as can be seen at the 0:15 mark. He was allowed to leave hospital the next day and no additional damage (but the existing condition) is expected to be found as there is almost no delay between the attack and the treatment. The miracles of science...."