It should be stressed though that this is not the first time that such a collapse has happened during a football match and unfortunately fatalities have occurred. Tragically it was during that game that, like Muamba, Foe suddenly collapsed to the floor in the 72nd minute.
Medics spent 45 minutes trying to restart his heart but to no avail. Signs of fatigue had been shown by Foe shortly before his collapse, which led to thoughts of substitution, but he had signaled a desire to play on. During six and a half seasons at Newcastle, he only scored one goal, but that goal will always be immortalized by the Geordie faithful, being a 25 yard volley which saw Newcastle snatch a draw from a home Premier League game against Arsenal in which they had trailed at half-time.
After that he eventually ended up playing for Beijing Enterprises in the Chinese League where, on June 5, , he suffered a fatal cardiac arrest during training, aged Football is a game that many of us love and that holds great importance in our lives. It can supply us with a host of emotions from week to week, from elation due to a late winner to despair after a particularly harsh defeat.
But it is overall just a game, played by 22 men on a pitch for both their enjoyment and ours. And while it is easy to throw around quotes joking about how crucial it is, in the grand scheme of things it is just entertainment and, as we have seen with recent events, even when football stops, life continues. The rest, as they say, is just gravy. Euro saw Scotland compete in an international tournament for the first time since A break of No home comforts….
Home Nostalgia. July 1, Share on Facebook Share on Twitter. Share 25 Tweet 16 Share 6. Related Posts. November 14, November 10, My first game: Dundee United v Dunfermline, 2nd May A bitter, cold wind had picked up since we left the car and rain was in the air. November 8, Muamba shakes his head. Maybe one or two times a season should become more like four or five. Although Muamba no longer plays football, he has not left the sport.
Muamba studied for a degree in sports journalism at Staffordshire University, graduating with honours in Having temporarily died in , it is clear that Muamba in is a man determined to make the most of life. Seventy-eight minutes is a long time, but it's not unheard of. If you want to find out how you could help someone who has a cardiac arrest, the British Heart Foundation runs a training course called Heart Start.
Muamba: Doctors tell their story. Muamba was 'dead' for 78 minutes. Heart failure warning to young. Cameroon star Foe dies. British Heart Foundation.
Arrhythmia Alliance. Fabrice Muamba is still in intensive care in hospital. But how is this possible? This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cardiac arrest, which can be caused by electrocution and the like, but is usually the result of a genetic unhappiness, can affect the healthiest hearts and simply means that they suddenly stop pumping blood properly, the heart's internal electrical system having become temporarily scrambled: CPR is urgent and further more complex treatment is mandatory.
It didn't take long, in Muamba's case, for the CPR to be administered. According to Amy Lawrence, who had been covering the match for the Observer , the reason everyone knew something was wrong was that Muamba, though out of the current run of play, suddenly "fell like a tree trunk. He didn't put his arms out to break his fall, or anything, he just dropped. Rafael van der Vaart, a Spurs player, was the first to do so, and frantic signalling to the pitchside medical teams brought on the men in green.
Spurs had five fully medically trained assistants pitchside that day, and there was, as ever, aid from the St John Ambulance unit. It was a far cry from , when Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech fractured his skull playing against Reading. He had to crawl off the pitch by himself and wait for an ambulance: the resultant outcry saw standards of medical pitchside preparation improved to their current high standards.
It's a great change because sometimes it takes only a few seconds to change a whole life and a whole career. Muamba began to get, if we can call it that, lucky. Instantly given oxygen and professional CPR, his chances were already raised. The CPR is the main thing, although oxygen certainly helps, a priority recognised in the recent British Heart Foundation television advert featuring player-turned-actor Vinnie Jones, which makes a point of ignoring the kiss of life.
I asked the foundation why it had apparently changed its stance after school generations had been taught, on dummies, to both breathe and push. So push-down CPR is now the official priority, but do not kid yourself it is not hard work — you need to make thrusts of at least 5cm downwards, repeated at a rhythm of 80 a minute. The Vinnie Jones advert features the Bee Gees' hit Staying Alive, which might be a dodgy record but is a perfect rhythmic touchstone.
What was happening to Muamba at this time, according to Professor Sanjay Sharma, a cardiology specialist at St George's University Hospital, London, was "ventricular fibrillation.
Rapid chaotic electrical activity within the heart.
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