[Mom MD]

usually after a cardiac arrest a patient will be therapeutically cooled to try to preserve neurologic function. This requires lower the body temperature and the patient is left intubated and deeply sedated. this usually lasts about 24 hours then sedation can be lightened. There is usually no definitive assessment of neurologic function for at least 48 hours post arrest although there are good and bad signs you can see earlier. The prone positioning is not usual and makes me wonder if he aspirated or something else happened to his pulmonary function but it sounds as if it was brief and pulmonary function is improving. None of this gives any information about prognosis. His neurologic function will determine that. I have seen people with much longer CPR recover completely but he may have also suffered devastating injury in that time. There is no way to know or guess until they tell us

[frithguild]

Thanks! I didn’t consider aspiration. While I think a Vax injury has not been ruled out, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

[frithguild]

Glenn went on to say that the next step is to get Hamlin, who is still sedated on a ventilator, to breathe on his own.“ https://www.wlwt.com/article/damar-hamlin-collapse-nfl-family-shares-statement/42386452

Is mechanical ventilation typical (Recognizing that this report may not be accurately reporting that mechanical ventilation is a modality)?