Alexei Cherepanov in serious condition

This should be merged with the thread already going on in the Rangers forum...

Hadn't gotten there yet - can I merge it, or do the mods do it?

Heater - I just started one (didn't see this thread) in the "This Just In" section.

There's a couple of links, plus ...

Can you merge it?

In the other thread (hopefully to be merged) I brought up the idea of "Commotio Cordis" - a well-timed but relatively mild impact to the chest can cause a fatal arrhythmia in an otherwise normal heart.

Wikipedia - Commotio Cordis

This is one possible explanation - and would also mean that there would have been nothing to pick up on pre-participation physicals.

There was an article in the New England Journal of Medicine about 6-8 months ago that talked about the cost/benefit of pre-participation ECG; I think I need to go look it up again...

Acrobat wrote:Heater - I just started one (didn't see this thread) in the "This Just In" section.

There's a couple of links, plus ...

Can you merge it?

No problemo.

the was an interestion article over at hB written by Jan Levine it has a link to a report about the incident surrounding his death\

http://www.hockeybuzz.com/blog/Jan-Levine/Cherepanov-Investigation-Results-Revealed---Who-Is-To-Blame/89/22172

Yikes. It's like watching Lost -- some questions andwered, many new ones raised. He was doping (I'm assuming blood doping) and taking medication that stimulates circulation and breathing? I assume that's not a bottle you can just grab from your pharmacy shelf. Someone had to prescribe the cordiaminum; someone had to administer the doping -- it's not something you can easily do yourself. Somewhere there is a doctor (or doctors) who knew what was going on and helped him hide it. Or the report itself is completely bogus.

You gotta feel for his family... so many questions still unanswered.