heart stoppage

Experts have said Hamlin’s condition has the hallmarks of commotio cordis, a rare phenomenon in which a sudden blunt impact to the chest can cause heart stoppage and death.

“We’re told by our toxicologist and our cardiologist that medicine has a dramatic effect on your heart and would cause heart stoppage and heart failure in a fairly short amount of time, which is consistent with what happened here,” Green said in court.

This would involve performing chest compressions and likely rib breakage in a frail person, with resulting pain and minimal chance of returning to the quality of life experience prior to the heart stoppage.

At the point in the book in which Mr. Rodgers’s income soars, you learn much about piloting speedboats with powerful sound systems, party-induced heart stoppage and sexual practices in the women’s bathroom at Studio 54.

Deaths from cardiovascular disease have plummeted 30% over the past decade thanks to drugs to lower blood pressure and cholesterol and devices that help get patients through the danger period after a heart attack or sudden heart stoppage.