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Anonymous wrote:The Damar Hamlin incident got me thinking. He got attention in less than a minute and happily survived. This isn't typical.
Many people are likely home when this happens like Lisa Marie, and often home alone. Homes don't typically have defibrillators or trained medical professionals. The death rate from out of hospital cardiac arrests is huge.
After the Hamlin incident, doctors said your best bet for surviving such a thing is to have it happen at a major sporting event, or airport.
I think it also helps to be a to notch athlete, in your 20s with no history of drug use. There is literally no comparison.
And to get cpr and a defibrillator within a minute of your heart stopping. Almost nobody who has cardiac arrest at home and has to wait for an ambulance to arrive to have their heart shocked back into rhythm survives at all. Or if they do, they often have a terrible anoxic brain injury.
This is also how my dad passed away. He didn’t die on the spot, but we removed life support within a few days when it was clear his anoxic brain injury was so bad.
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This is what killed my dad, he was lucky he died on the spot. A friend's father who had the same thing lay in a hospital bed for 6 months in a coma. I'd rather go with a bang.