how would they know he’d “wake up” and his brain would be ok enough to follow commands instead of letting him sleep 2-5 more days in a coma?

what tests does he need to perform/pass in the morning(s) before being taken off ventilatior? understood that putting it back in, not easy

when do you expect the ventilator will come out/why is he still on it if they let the sedation wear off?

they must have known before hand how he'd react based on what they saw from CT scan or something?

will they be testing his reflexes if he’s sedated on purpose/being cooled?

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remindme! 2 days follow up with this nice doctor

if we don’t hear that he’s awake in 2 more days, would you say it’s most likely bad?

is there any way they could’ve already woken him up if they saw all positives?

so he went into the tackle, had trauma into his chest area, heart stopped due to the timing of the hit

we had enough blood/oxygen for like 10 seconds to stand up/move

goes down

sideline medical crew rushes over

check him for concussion/spinal injury

how many minutes between going down and getting treatment was his brain starved from oxygen

if it was more than 5 minutes, is he most likely doomed?

> During this time, Mr. Hamlin will be reassessed frequently, looking at things like cranial nerve reflexes (from nerves that come directly off the brain and not the spinal cord). These include nerves that control the pupils reacting to light, eye movements, cough and gag reflexes, and blinking. If they are impaired, that’s a bad sign, as they tend to be more resilient than the “higher function” areas of the brain.

it seems highly unlikely that they'll release this information to the press/media/fans, despite the fact that basically millions of people will most likely look at football differently if a player dies from a routine tackle, no?

we have no clue

1. his preliminary CT scan results

2. if he's had an MRI yet while intubated (unlikely)

3. if he's being cooled or not

correct?

if there aren't reports that he's awake and off the ventilator within the next 7-10 days, is he most likely going to be a vegetable/dead or is there some kind of "healing" that could happen while he's in a coma for, 14, 21, 30+ days?

> Let him walk out of hospital within a week.

if he can that is, right? is there a 50% chance he's a vegetable/his brain is fucked?

> That's one reason (among the others) people are typically sedated when on a ventilator.

if you're sedated, can't you "not breathe on your own" without the ventilator? or is it like being asleep? or are there different levels?

> That's what they did with me (or at least how it was explained to me).

when you were conscious or in a coma?

> He will remain induced until he can breathe on his own

I don't get this. He's in a coma, therefore he needs a ventilator.

They're going to try to bring him out of the coma, turn the ventilator off, he tries to breathe with it still in his throat, if it fails they turn it back on and put him back out?

is it fair to expect he is conscious and functioning in the next 2 days?

if not, is it fair to expect it’s worse than we all suspect?

can somebody with a medical background give an update as to what we're most likely to expect in the coming updates that we're waiting for?

a quick google shows that after you are put into a medically induced coma, you usually aren't attempted to be brought out of it for at least 24-72 hours. does that mean we're facing 2 more days with no update (or more?)

did they do a scan of his brain when he arrived or not yet? are we just waiting to hear whether he sustained a brain injury or not? what other outstanding medical conditions might we be waiting to hear about? if he didn't sustain a brain injury, is he most likely to be basically 100% ok?

he's still having machines breathe for him if he's in a medically inducted coma. when they try to bring him out of the coma, will they then know if his body can breathe on its own?

those seem to be the 2 biggest unknown things from what i've read/gathered. would love if somebody more in the know could shed more detail.

how does it stay charged? solar?