Hamlin\u00a0still is in critical condition\u00a0after the 24-year-old suffered a cardiac arrest and collapsed on the field during Monday night\u2019s game in Cincinnati, his team said Tuesday, a stunning moment that left players weeping, praying and embracing as their teammate was taken away by ambulance. Hamlin spent the night in the intensive care unit at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, where he remains Tuesday, the team\u00a0said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hamlin is \u201cflipped over on his stomach\u201d in the hospital to help with the blood on his lungs, according to Glenn. Doctors told Glenn his nephew is in that position to help take the pressure of the lungs, so they don\u2019t have to work as hard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The next step is to get Hamlin, who is still sedated on a ventilator, to breathe on his own, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During the first quarter of Monday\u2019s game,\u00a0<\/strong>Hamlin fell on his back just moments after getting up from an open field tackle of Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Tee Higgins. \u201cHis heartbeat was restored on the field\u201d and he was transferred to the medical center \u201cfor further testing and treatment,\u201d the Bills\u00a0tweeted Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cardiac arrest\u00a0results from electrical disturbances that cause the heart to suddenly stop beating properly, and death can be quick if help isn\u2019t rendered immediately. It is\u00a0not the same\u00a0as a heart attack or heart failure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta said sometimes when the heart is not beating well, fluid can back up into the lungs and make it hard for the medical staff to oxygenate the patient. So, they will flip the person on their stomach to what is known as the prone position to make breathing easier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gupta also said it sounds like Hamlin is still having a significant amount of cardiac dysfunction and his heart cannot pump enough blood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One of the treatment options is to decrease the demand of the body for oxygenated blood, he told Anderson Cooper ,monitored by NSEMGH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSo you want to improve the amount of circulation but in the interim, you can also decrease the demand by sedating somebody, by keeping them on a breathing machine,\u201d he said. \u201cSometimes they\u2019ll even use cooling agents, hypothermia it\u2019s called, to basically almost put the body in more of a hibernation-like state so it\u2019s not demanding as much oxygenated blood. That\u2019s part of the reason he would be on a breathing machine as well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gupta said it is still unclear to what lead to the cardiac arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hamlin\u00a0still is in critical condition\u00a0after the 24-year-old suffered a cardiac arrest and collapsed on the field during Monday night\u2019s game in Cincinnati, his team said Tuesday, a stunning moment that left players weeping, praying and embracing as their teammate was taken away by ambulance. Hamlin spent the night in the intensive care unit at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":28978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[64,12,3295],"tags":[455,5497,6975,5304,9884,9232,9235,9233,9231,7234,11337,7178,5257,6825,3874,8015,67,11973,13256,13301,9243,9234,8206,9262,214,9242,3954,10415,594],"class_list":["post-28977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-fitness","category-world-news","category-world-sport","tag-african-american","tag-ambulance","tag-arrest","tag-attack","tag-cardiac","tag-cardiac-arrest","tag-cincinnati-bengals","tag-collapse","tag-damar-hamlin","tag-death","tag-demand","tag-disturbances","tag-doctors","tag-hospital","tag-lead","tag-nfl","tag-nsemgh","tag-one","tag-players","tag-results","tag-sedated","tag-tee-higgins","tag-treatment","tag-united-states","tag-university","tag-ventilator","tag-will","tag-work","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52233,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28977\/revisions\/52233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}