Crowd medical emergencies

[monty999]

Does seem to be a lot of medical emergencies lately at football matches ( another one going on at the moment at Fulham). Hopefully it doesn't lead to any covid related reason or fuel the argument for anti-vaxers. Or is it that in football there is more emphasis on the responsibility for the wellbeing of all who attend nowadays as I can't remember many happening years ago. Hopefully all ends ok at Fulham. Respect to the clubs medical staff

Edited by monty999 on Saturday 29th January 15:42

[Feirny]

Also one at Oldham at the same time. There’s been quite a few this season already.

[monty999]

Feirny said:

Also one at Oldham at the same time. There’s been quite a few this season already.

Yes, I thought about posting a few weeks ago but just thought they might have been isolated incidents, unfortunately it seems not.
Perhaps the best way to get in to see a doctor these days

[48k]

I heard it discussed on the radio a few weeks ago, they were saying that the number of crowd medical emergencies hasn't really increased, what's changed is that games are being stopped when it happens and so they are getting a lot more attention. No idea if that's true or not, I missed what their data source was.

[hepy]

There was one at Blackburn on Monday.

Middlesbrough’s team doctor was awesome, and this, plus the CPR given by the fan, probably saved the guy’s life.

The break seemed to galvanise Blackburn and they won one nil.

[dxbtiger]

Purity levels in cocaine increasing?

[Roofless Toothless]

I was at Buckmore Park kart track once and a race was stopped because of a medical emergency in the crowd. Mind you, one of the karts hit him.

[ajap1979]

Sad news about the Fulham fan. Apparently the Huddersfield v Stoke game was halted last night as well.

[Roofless Toothless]

The reason racing had to stop at Buckmore Park was that the track only had one ambulance on stand by. When it had to go off to the hospital everything stopped until it came back.

I wonder if they stop the game at football matches because they only have one ‘crash’ team available? If the game went on, and a player was seriously hurt, or had a heart attack as well (and we have all seen this is not rare) then the medics would be too stretched to deal with both situations at the same time.

Sad news about the Fulham incident. How close we all are all the time. Go along to see a football match and never come home.

[hepy]

dxbtiger said:

Purity levels in cocaine increasing?

Given the sad news, might be worth deleting this comment?