• leadore@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    “My doctors have confirmed that I didn’t break any bones or suffer a concussion. I didn’t have a heart attack or a stroke. I don’t have any tumors or hemorrhages. But I was briefly unconscious and was taken to the hospital. While receiving excellent care over the past several weeks, I’ve also had to deal with a mild case of pneumonia,” he said in a statement.

    The 911 recording said CPR was being administered. So something is not adding up here.

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      2 months ago

      Probably technically correct:

      In 2021, the American Heart Association clarified that “heart attack” is often mistakenly used to describe cardiac arrest. While a heart attack refers to death of heart muscle tissue as a result of blood supply loss, cardiac arrest is caused when the heart’s electrical system malfunctions. Furthermore, the American Heart Association explains that “if corrective measures are not taken rapidly, this condition progresses to sudden death. Cardiac arrest should be used to signify an event as described above, that is reversed, usually by CPR and/or defibrillation or cardioversion, or cardiac pacing. Sudden cardiac death should not be used to describe events that are not fatal”.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiac_arrest

      That is, if he was administered CPR or defibrillation and was revived, he probably had a cardiac arrest but not a heart attack. Or possibly he was having difficulty breathing and didn’t have a cardiac event at all.

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        2 months ago

        OK I can see what you’re getting at, but if CPR was performed, it’s very difficult to believe an 84 year old didn’t have rib fractures at least.