This is becoming pretty common. I wonder why. The No. 3 high school basketball player in Alabama died Thursday after collapsing on the court while playing the game he loved. Pinson Valley High School senior Caleb White, 17, became ill around 1:15 p.m. while training with his teammates, according to his grandfather. He suddenly dropped to the ground and was rushed to the hospital, but doctors couldn’t revive him, George Varnadoe Jr. said on Facebook. “At 17, he was dead!!!!” Varnadoe wrote, adding that his grandson was an “honor student, very respectful, high intellect, excellent role model, phenomenal basketball player.” LeBron James' son rushed to the hospital in cardiac arrest Damar Hamlin in critical condition after suffering cardiac arrest; Bills-Bengals postponed
Typical conspiratard bullshit, earlier you Cons weren't paying attention to these things and now when you do, suddenly it's 'common' Sudden Deaths in Young Competitive Athletes Analysis of 1866 Deaths in the United States, 1980–2006 The highest number of sudden cardiovascular death events recorded in any single year was 76 (in 2005 and 2006), followed by 66 in 1997 and 2002 and 64 in 1996 and 2001 (Figure 1). Over the most recent 6 years of reporting (2001 to 2006), the average number of cardiovascular deaths per year was 66 (range 50 to 76). The cardiovascular mortality rate in young athletes was calculated for the most recent 6-year period (2001 to 2006) with an estimated 10.7 million participants per year ≤39 years of age in all organized amateur and competitive sports. The incidence of sudden deaths in these athletes was 0.61/100 000 person-years.
Whew, I'll stick to golf and figure skating then. Given a choice between beating WC to death with modified pool noodles and forcing him to take a course and pass an exam on logical fallacies.. Yeah noodles. Die of old age waiting for him to learn something.
Long before the Covid Pandemic... The above were common stories that rarely made it to a TV news channel unless you were a star athlete, celebrity, child of a celebrity et cetera. I do remember many putting the blame on drug use even when the families of the dead person asked for privacy. Anyways, cardiac arrests have been dramatically rising for several decades as statistics show that I posted in another thread not related to Covid or Vaccines. In that thread, nobody gave a shit about the statistics involving our young athletes, and my concern...there was no Pandemic. Yet, one idiot made a comment that it's an issue "involving minorities only". States Requiring AEDs In Schools Below is a list of states that require AEDs in School. Many automatic external defibrillator units have pediatric AED pads available, making use of an AED in a school setting or school athletic events by school employees or bystanders possible and safe. Alabama Arkansas Connecticut Florida Georgia Louisiana Maryland New Jersey North Dakota Nevada New York Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina Tennessee (pending) Texas Many of the above had either a AED law on the books prior to the Pandemic and I do remember seeing those devices at my teenagers athletic training camps and even summer camp prior to the Pandemic...in states that did not have AED laws at that time. Also, in South Dakota, Kentucky, and Illinois...I saw AED devices in government buildings back in early 2000s. I've also talk about it in the past to the rise in diabetes centers, heart/cardiovascular care centers being built in suburbs prior to the Pandemic and now even more today as I saw in my recent vacation travels. It did cause me to pause and think...what's going on with America's health ? Today, kids in sports seem bigger (fatter), most have unhealthy eating habits, strange sleep patterns (social media unbalance), and more mentally stressed. It takes an eventual toll on the body and they're just teenagers. There's nothing to see there...right ??? wrbtrader
There are similarities and differences even though the Parents of Caleb White may never release an autopsy report of their teenager...most parents do not in situations like this. Simply, we may never know what happened exactly unless Caleb White was already under physician care & prescription medicine like Hank Gathers (23 years old). The Gathers tragedy (Ventricular Tachycardia) was a preventable tragedy and states today are still not prepared for such events on the high school level even though Hank Gathers sudden cardiac arrest occurred during a college basketball game. Sometimes it is not known what causes ventricular tachycardia, especially when it occurs in young people. But in most cases ventricular tachycardia is caused by heart disease, such as a previous heart attack, a congenital heart defect, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, dilated cardiomyopathy, mild respiratory infection, or myocarditis. Gathers was lucky at first because doctors were able to diagnose his heart problems that first went undetected during a routine required physical to play basketball at Loyola. I believe it was a cheerleader that Gathers mentioned he had pain in his chest after one particular hard practice. She then just happen to mention it to a team doctor during her own medical issue involving an injury to her leg. Team doctors begin to monitor his basketball practice and notice some signs plus his own family medical history...they then had him take a more complete physical (not a routine physical) with tests that look for specific problems with the heart... Those types of tests typically are not given in college sports and are rarely given in high school sports unless a team doctor, coach or family member notice something abnormal. In fact, only ONE state in the United States makes it a requirement to give the tests to look for Ventricular Tachycardia or any other abnormal heart functions... That state is Massachusetts. Anyways, team doctors put Gathers on prescription medicine for his heart problems and he was back playing basketball...trying to get back to his prior level of breaking many national records. The problem...his performance sucked while on medication and the team doctors begin lowering his dosage but later discover in the months after Gather's death in a key college basketball game... He was not taking his medication on game days accordingly to close friends of his at college because it slowed his performance and he did not want to risk not being the #1 draft pick in the NBA. Fast forward to 2017, the American Academy of Pediatrics did extensive research on youths after many cases of sudden cardiac arrests in youths that resulted in death. They discovered a shocking 1 in 25 youth ages 12 to 19 have hypertension, and 1 in 10 have elevated blood pressure (previously called “prehypertension”). High blood pressure is more common in youth with obesity. The risk of suffering sudden cardiac arrest is 10 times higher during practice or play because the heart has to work harder. About 2,000 people younger than 25 die each year from sudden cardiac arrest, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. Here's the problem with the above...most high schools (+20,000 high schools in America) do not have team doctors, only require routine physicals, and will only have ambulances on standby at sporting events of big tournaments and/or state competitions. Every year since Hank Gather's death (1990)...teenagers have been collapsing dead in practices, games or dying at home...more often than not...suddenly without any initial reasons. These are supposedly HEALTHY TEENAGERS based upon a "routine physical"...not a complete physical because most insurance companies do not pay for such. Here's the other problem variable in the above equation...4.165 million youths in 2021...in the United States of America do not have "health insurance". Simply, families in the United States can not afford those types of extensive medical exams. Simply, if your child plays sports, the family has a history of medical issues (e.g. overweight, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart problems, et cetera)... Youths in high school sports in America are at high risk like the story of Caleb White especially if you're a star athlete because your family and you with keep any information about problems detected in a complete physical (if you're lucky enough to afford the tests/have adequate insurance that will pay for such tests)... Your family and you do not want to scare away any potential of getting athletic scholarships. In contrast, professional sports like soccer, NHL, NBA, NFL will require extensive access to your medical history including your family medical history, they will have in-depth conversations with the team doctors at your university. If they see too many "routine physicals"...they will require the athlete to take a more complete physical at a medical facility/hospital in your local area/nearby location prior to the big draft day. It's a well-known fact that if you have heart problems in college or high school...you will fall into the lower rounds of the draft...costing you multiple millions of dollars. As stated, you do not want the word to get out about any medical issues...lost scholarships, and/or low draft picks if the word gets out. Last of all, an extreme exercise routine that may come with sports...it's commonly known that athletes push themselves beyond healthy limits into the "unhealthy category". Many well-known stories of high school athletes doing such without the coaches knowing. Some parents are aware and have been involved in "pushing their kids" too hard in out of school training for fear their kids will lose scholarship opportunities. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6179786/ https://www.indystar.com/story/spor...thletes-die-sudden-cardiac-arrest/5504764001/ wrbtrader
Dale Earndhart actually died from the same thing that happened to Hamlin. In the crash his chest impacted the steering wheel at the precise time in the heart beat to screw up the electrical current, shutting it down. And that these types of incidents actually make up a significant percent of all traffic fatalities.
He was one of my favorite racers. The precise detail of Dale Earndhart death is a little different than Hamlin but people wonder what all happened to Hamlin considering he had on a neck brace for a while after being released from the hospital. Dale Earnhardt Death (Quora Explanation): He died of a basilar skull fracture. In layman’s terms, his head hit the steering wheel which caused a crack at the base of the skull. This crack caused brain matter and spinal fluid to release into the body, he died of cardiac arrest because of it. He had a massive heart attack. It’s quite graphic when you think about it which is why I tend not too. Also, he suffered severe trauma and broken ribs and an ankle break. Suffice to say that when Dale Earnhardt was pulled from the car, he was already dead. It is also confirmed that his neck completely broke in two places, at the base of the skull and in the middle. Hamlin will have further health problems if he goes back to playing in the NFL. Another blow like that...he may go into another cardiac arrest on the field or maybe within a few days after a game considering his heart will be beating abnormally. Hamlin suffered what is called commotio cordis, where the chest takes a blow at a specific time in the heart’s rhythm where the heart rhythm is very vulnerable to going into cardiac arrest. I remember one of my kid's hockey games. A kid on the other team took a slap shot to the chest from the hockey puck. That kid had chest pains for several days before the parents decided to take him to see a doctor. The doctor told them that he could have gone into "cardiac arrest" and that it sometimes doesn't occur immediately after a blow to the chest although in most cases it (cardiac arrest) does occur on impact from a blow to the chest. wrbtrader