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...."
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A10anisScience for the win....
antonyeI think this deserves a *science *ftw tagging
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YogiThis happens to soccer players too often. People always talk about soccer being for pussies in the US but you try running that much, it's insanity and young men have serious heart failures. One was just as recent as last season in the Premier League, Fabrice Muamba.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0XN1d6s2oU
He survived and later returned to White Hart Lane.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmNLbuvOH3o
As a referee I must point out the excellent refereeing from both refs here. I mean there's so much fakery it's hard to know what's going on at times. Both refs handled the situations well.
SFOGuyYou know, I hadn't thought about that, but you're totally right. They were professional, on task, immediately responded appropriately---despite all the over-acting to draw penalties that pro-soccer players generate.
Smart refs.
This happens to soccer players too often. People always talk about soccer being for pussies in the US but you try running that much, it's insanity and young men have serious heart failures. One was just as recent as last season in the Premier League, Fabrice Muamba.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0XN1d6s2oU
He survived and later returned to White Hart Lane.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmNLbuvOH3o
As a referee I must point out the excellent refereeing from both refs here. I mean there's so much fakery it's hard to know what's going on at times. Both refs handled the situations well.
Mordhaus*promote
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chingalera@Yogi and SFO, smart refs, smart players, and the best place to be with a diagnosed arrhythmical heart condition when time is always of the essence in an emergency....Nothing get's a dull match going like an NDE, send him the fuck back out on the field after a rest!
worthwords"insanity and young men have serious heart failures" That's tosh. This gentleman has a congenital condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (or HCM pronounced 'HOCUM' in the trade). It's a rare condition of which one variant is inheritied dominantly. Undiagnosed people who do high intensity sports are more likely to die from sudden death younger than the sedentary population with this condition - it's nothing to do with the type of sport itself.
This happens to soccer players too often. People always talk about soccer being for pussies in the US but you try running that much, it's insanity and young men have serious heart failures. One was just as recent as last season in the Premier League, Fabrice Muamba.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0XN1d6s2oU
He survived and later returned to White Hart Lane.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmNLbuvOH3o
As a referee I must point out the excellent refereeing from both refs here. I mean there's so much fakery it's hard to know what's going on at times. Both refs handled the situations well.
YogiLook shut up. Two people in my own family have had this disease which is why my brother can't play soccer. They both lived past 80. It isn't just the condition, it's the sport and better screening procedures need to take place.
Don't use tosh with me you sound like a cunt.
"insanity and young men have serious heart failures" That's tosh. This gentleman has a congenital condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (or HCM pronounced 'HOCUM' in the trade). It's a rare condition of which one variant is inheritied dominantly. Undiagnosed people who do high intensity sports are more likely to die from sudden death younger than the sedentary population with this condition - it's nothing to do with the type of sport itself.
worthwordsdon't be so cunty as to tell people what words they should use. regardless of your intent, you made it sound like soccer causes the condition because of all the running around, I was stating that any high intensity sport is a danger if you have the condition as your only symptom may be sudden death. I would hate to think that you would put anyone off football due to this rare condition. Should professional athletes be screened? yes i think so and many do have at least one ECG, but this is an imperfect screening tool and its often at the amateur level that these events first happen before one might invest in a full medical work up.
Look shut up. Two people in my own family have had this disease which is why my brother can't play soccer. They both lived past 80. It isn't just the condition, it's the sport and better screening procedures need to take place.
Don't use tosh with me you sound like a cunt.
Fausticlesays...All soccer players should die! No wait! I mean live! Thier own fault! Your fault! CUNT! No you!
don't be so cunty as to tell people what words they should use. regardless of your intent, you made it sound like soccer causes the condition because of all the running around, I was stating that any high intensity sport is a danger if you have the condition as your only symptom may be sudden death. I would hate to think that you would put anyone off football due to this rare condition. Should professional athletes be screened? yes i think so and many do have at least one ECG, but this is an imperfect screening tool and its often at the amateur level that these events first happen before one might invest in a full medical work up.
siftbotFootballer Has Heart Attack, Defibrillator Kicks In. Wow. has been added as a related post - related requested by ant on that post.
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