Buffalo Bills security Damar Hamlin was critically injured Monday night time within the first quarter of a recreation towards the Cincinnati Bengals.
Hamlin fell moments after tackling Cincinnati broad receiver Tee Higgins. Hamlin obtained to his ft, appeared to regulate his face masks together with his proper hand, then fell backward, about two seconds later. His arms hit the bottom at his sides.
Emergency responders tended to him on the sphere earlier than he was taken by ambulance to a hospital. The recreation was postponed, then suspended.
Hamlin’s uncle, Dorrian Glenn, mentioned Tuesday night time that his nephew’s coronary heart stopped twice, as soon as on the sphere and once more on the hospital. The participant had been receiving 100% oxygen from a ventilator, however that’s all the way down to solely 50%, he mentioned.
Here is a listing of some in-game or in-competition medical occasions that both suspended or postponed the competitions by which they occurred:
Christian Eriksen
The scene in Cincinnati was in some methods harking back to what Denmark soccer participant Christian Eriksen went by throughout his group’s look on the European Championship in June 2021. He collapsed within the forty third minute of a match towards Finland, with docs later revealing how extremely shut he got here to demise.
Several medics labored frenetically to provide Eriksen chest compressions whereas his teammates choked away tears and fashioned a circle across the midfielder to defend the scene from public view. A defibrillator was wanted to restart his coronary heart.
That recreation ultimately resumed after a delay of about 90 minutes. Eriksen recovered and performed within the World Cup that was held late final yr.
Keyontae Johnson
On Dec. 12, 2020, Keyontae Johnson was enjoying for Florida in a recreation towards rival Florida State. He scored on an alley-oop dunk with 16:18 left within the first half for an 11-3 lead. The Seminoles known as time-out and Johnson went to the Florida huddle together with his teammates. As he returned to the court docket, he was strolling towards the midcourt stripe and collapsed, face-first.
His teammates had been requested twice in the event that they wished to proceed the sport, and determined to take action. Play was delayed, however solely briefly.
He spent two days in a hospital in Tallahassee, then eight extra at a hospital in Gainesville, Florida, the place the Gators’ campus is. The preseason Southeastern Conference participant of the yr recovered, however by no means performed for Florida once more — aside from a ceremonial begin 15 month later. He has since transferred to Kansas State and resumed his enjoying profession.
Jay Bouwmeester
Playing for the St. Louis Blues on Feb. 11, 2020, Jay Bouwmeester went into cardiac arrest on the bench throughout the first interval of a recreation towards the Anaheim Ducks.
Athletic trainers from each groups instantly responded, and Bouwmeester ultimately acquired an implantable defibrillator to control his coronary heart rhythm. He didn’t play within the NHL once more.
The recreation was postponed.
Jiri Fischer
It was the primary interval of a Detroit recreation towards Nashville on Nov. 21, 2005. Jiri Fischer slumped over whereas seated on the Red Wings bench, and coach Mike Babcock started furiously waving for assist.
Fischer had a seizure, fell ahead and CPR was shortly administered. His coronary heart had stopped and medical personnel couldn’t discover a pulse, Babcock mentioned, earlier than emergency employees shocked his coronary heart and obtained it beating once more.
The recreation was delayed, then finally postponed. Fischer by no means performed once more.
Fabrice Muamba
Bolton midfielder Fabrice Muamba suffered an on-field cardiac arrest throughout an FA Cup quarterfinal match towards Tottenham in 2012. Andrew Deaner, a heart specialist who was within the stands, rushed on to the sphere to assist deal with him.
Muamba’s coronary heart stopped beating by itself for 78 minutes, however began once more after arriving on the London Chest Hospital on March 17, 2012. He was discharged a month later.
In August 2012, Muamba introduced his retirement after consultations with medical consultants.
“While the news is devastating, I have much to be thankful for,” Muamba mentioned. “I thank God that I am alive and I pay tribute once again to the members of the medical team who never gave up on me.”
Chris Pronger
Former NHL star Chris Pronger collapsed and suffered commotio cordis when a puck hit him within the chest whereas enjoying within the 1998 Stanley Cup playoffs as a member of the St. Louis Blues.
The defenseman was in a position to proceed his profession, enjoying for greater than a decade after recovering from the incident.
“Prayers that Damar Hamlin can have the same outcome that I was fortunate to have with my incident,” Pronger wrote on Twitter. “Our thoughts and prayers go out to Damar, his family, teammates and the greater NFL community during this incredibly scary time.”
Hank Gathers
On March 4, 1990, Hank Gathers — one of many main scorers within the nation — collapsed and died throughout Loyola Marymount’s West Coast Conference males’s faculty basketball event recreation towards Portland.
Less than three months earlier, Gathers had collapsed throughout one other recreation and subsequent checks revealed that he had arrhythmia, an irregular heartbeat. He was given remedy, and the dosage was ultimately lowered.
After a dunk within the event recreation, he collapsed close to midcourt. Efforts to resuscitate him on court docket, in an ambulance and at a close-by hospital failed, and he was pronounced lifeless about two hours later.
Chuck Hughes
On Oct. 24, 1971, Chuck Hughes of the Detroit Lions had a coronary heart assault late within the fourth quarter of an NFL recreation towards the Chicago Bears.
He was formally pronounced lifeless about 50 minutes after the sport, with an post-mortem revealing that the guts assault was attributable to a large stoppage in his left coronary artery.
But docs later mentioned he was basically lifeless on the sphere — and the closest defender to him when he collapsed, Bears star Dick Butkus, instantly started waving for assist when Hughes tumbled to the turf, clearly conscious of the severity of the scenario.
The recreation was delayed — experiences differ as to how lengthy the delay was — and the ultimate 62 seconds had been ultimately performed.
Bill Masterton
Bill Masterton died Jan. 15, 1968, two days after struggling a extreme head harm whereas enjoying for the Minnesota North Stars towards the Oakland Seals. His demise was believed to be the one attributable to an on-ice incident in NHL historical past.
The recreation was stopped whereas docs labored on Masterton, then resumed later that night time.
He by no means regained consciousness and died from a extreme mind harm. Most gamers of that period within the NHL, Masterton included, didn’t put on helmets.