lownslowav8r No. 1 Share Posted July 25, 2023 Bronny James, son of LeBron James, suffers cardiac arrest at USC basketball practice | CNN WWW.CNN.COM Bronny James, the son of NBA star LeBron James, suffered a cardiac arrest during basketball practice at the University of... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Joseph No. 2 Share Posted July 25, 2023 WOW! Hope you have a complete recovery young man. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DUCKED No. 3 Share Posted July 25, 2023 He’s young, strong and in excellent physical shape and should make a full recovery. Hopefully, he’ll make it back for the 24/25 season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
anyotherduck No. 4 Share Posted July 25, 2023 Too many young athletes dropping from cardiac issues. No one seems to know why, or do they... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Sousa No. 5 Share Posted July 25, 2023 (edited) I thought this meant the end of his career, but the same thing happened on the USC team last summer and the athlete played again for the team 6 months later. That is amazing. If Lebron's goal stays intact, Bronny will have to... ??? Edited July 25, 2023 by Jon Sousa Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven A Moderator No. 6 Share Posted July 25, 2023 I sure hope this isn't a Hank Gathers 2.0. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Augduck No. 7 Share Posted July 25, 2023 Actually they ruled it cardiac arrest. There is a difference: A heart attack is when one of the coronary arteries becomes blocked. The heart muscle is robbed of its vital blood supply and, if left untreated, will begin to die because it is not getting enough oxygen. A cardiac arrest is when a person's heart stops pumping blood around their body and they stop breathing normally. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrathis No. 8 Share Posted July 25, 2023 On 7/25/2023 at 5:50 PM, Augduck said: Actually they ruled it cardiac arrest. There is a difference: A heart attack is when one of the coronary arteries becomes blocked. The heart muscle is robbed of its vital blood supply and, if left untreated, will begin to die because it is not getting enough oxygen. A cardiac arrest is when a person's heart stops pumping blood around their body and they stop breathing normally. What would cause cardiac arrest in a young, healthy top tier athlete? I feel like this is becoming more common, but then again maybe it's due to the information age and all news being global in an instant? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastBayDuckDad Moderator No. 9 Share Posted July 26, 2023 Without medically geeking out too much, cardiac arrest in a young athlete due to either an electrical event or a structural abnormality in the heart muscle that stops the normal contraction. It may be brought on by a blunt impact to the chest, like what happened to Bill's player Damar Hamlin. Sort of an inverse of the classic chest thump that used to done prior to starting CPR. More likely the exertion during intense athletic exercise cues a sudden 'short circuit' of the normal conduction pathway and an arrhythmia where blood doesn't pump out of the heart. This isn't a heart attack per se, which is traditionally a complete or partial blockage of one of the primary coronary arteries which can lead to immediate heart failure, no heart function, and death. The arteries in a young athlete's heart are fine, and if the heart can be 'restarted' and the cause of the malignant pathway found and corrected, the prognosis is excellent. It seems to happen more in young male basketball players than other sports but it still pretty rare. No real evidence that the Covid vaccine is a culprit so far. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Kamikaze Kid Moderator No. 10 Share Posted July 26, 2023 When it comes to understanding sports related injuries and medical conditions, this is the man! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pennsylvania Duck Moderator No. 11 Share Posted July 26, 2023 Jon Gold: Bronny James does not deserve to be anybody's poster child It’s not a normal thing to hear a mother describe the death of her son. It stays with you as a reporter. It can haunt you. It’s even stranger to hear a mother describe her son’s rebirth. Yet that’s where I found myself in December 2016, standing outside a hospital room in Tucson with Heather Cunningham. Her son, Craig, was a center for the Tucson Roadrunners, a team captain before the new franchise had dropped its first puck, an NHL pro for parts of 4 seasons anticipating his call-up back to the show after scoring 13 points in the franchise’s first 11 games. On Nov. 19, with the Moose in town visiting from Manitoba, Cunningham skated out for the opening faceoff. Just after a Scottish bagpipe and drum band had finished a rousing rendition of the Star Spangled Banner, the then 26-year-old, in the prime of his life, collapsed in a heap on the ice. Gold: Bronny James does not deserve to be anybody’s poster child SATURDAYOUTWEST.COM The news of Bronny James' sudden cardiac arrest thrust the incoming USC freshman into a spotlight that no young man -- and... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
