Damar Hamlin’s family makes first statement after player’s cardiac arrest: “Please keep Damar in your prayers”

The household of Damar Hamlin on Tuesday expressed gratitude for the outpouring of “love and assist” proven towards the Buffalo Payments security hours after the participant suffered cardiac arrest throughout a recreation Monday evening in Cincinnati. The Payments stated the 24-year-old Hamlin is in essential situation.

“Your generosity and compassion imply the world to us,” Hamlin’s household wrote in a message posted on the Twitter account of the participant’s advertising and marketing consultant, Jordon Rooney. “Please maintain Damar in your prayers.”

The household didn’t present a selected medical replace on Hamlin, however they thanked the primary responders and medical employees on the College of Cincinnati Medical Heart for his or her “distinctive care.”

Hamlin’s suffered cardiac arrest whereas tackling receiver Tee Higgins within the first quarter of a recreation towards the Bengals. Medical employees restored his heartbeat on the sphere earlier than he was taken away in an ambulance.

Hamlin could have suffered a “remarkably uncommon” situation when he collapsed on the sphere, CBS Information medical contributor Dr. David Agus told “CBS Mornings.”

Video reveals that after the hit, he stood up, took just a few steps and fell to the bottom. 

Whereas it isn’t but clear what precipitated Hamlin’s coronary heart to instantly cease beating, Agus believes the participant sustained blunt pressure trauma to his chest “within the actual proper spot, on the actual proper second throughout his heartbeat,” which precipitated his coronary heart to have an arrhythmia — “not beat successfully to push blood to the mind.”

Agus suspects Hamlin’s coronary heart was in ventricular fibrillation.  

“What we all know with commotio cordis, which is that this situation, is that each minute you delay stunning them, resuscitating them, what occurs is there’s a rise of 10% in mortality,” Agus stated. “They began CPR straight away, which is nice. My hope is that they had been in a position to restore the center charge quickly sufficient to have the ability to get blood move to the mind so there isn’t any injury there.”