达玛尔·哈姆林心脏骤停的连锁反应在一年后仍然很强烈

每当昆汀·汤姆林去高中踢足球的时候, 他的母亲, 劳拉, knows one thing is for sure: The team won't take the field without access to an automated external defibrillator, 或AED.

劳拉·汤姆林知道，因为她买了那个装置, 哪一种能使心脏恢复正常节律, after her family watched Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin collapse on the field from a cardiac arrest during the Jan. 2023年2月2日，在辛辛那提对阵孟加拉虎队.

“这是一个真正的动力,”劳拉说。, who was watching the "Monday Night Football" game on TV with her kids from their home in nearby Fort Thomas, 肯塔基州, 而她的丈夫, 克里斯多夫, 在看台上观看. 克里斯托弗最近中风了, 所以他和劳拉一直在和昆汀和他们的女儿谈, 阿里, about the importance of nutrition and exercise to maintain good cardiovascular health.

But when Hamlin's heart stopped – and was restarted with 心肺复苏 and a defibrillator on live television – the conversation changed.

比赛结束后, we focused on preparing them to save someone's life if they were ever in a position to do so,劳拉说.

接收 立即心肺复苏 心脏骤停后的除颤器电击是很危险的. 然而, only 40% of people who have a cardiac arrest outside the hospital get bystander 心肺复苏, 只有9%的人存活下来, 根据 美国心脏协会统计数据.

When a lay responder delivers a shock from an AED, an estimated 44% survive, 根据 2022年的数据 来自国家心脏骤停登记处，以提高生存率. 然而, aed 旁观者的使用率只有5%吗.

The dramatic unfolding of Hamlin's cardiac arrest immediately spiked interest in aed and 心肺复苏, 导致全国范围内培训和教育的增加. The AHA said views of its hands-only 心肺复苏 webpages jumped more than 600% in the ensuing days. 在4月, 300万人观看了该公司关于如何进行徒手心肺复苏的视频, which requires pushing hard and fast in the center of the chest at 100 to 120 beats per minute.

Once Hamlin recovered, he began working with the AHA to teach people about 心肺复苏 and aed. The NFL also worked with the AHA to provide 心肺复苏 and AED training at the Super Bowl and the April draft. More than half of all NFL teams provided training for their staff or local communities, 结果大概是18个,000人接受了徒手心肺复苏培训，大约500人接受了心肺复苏培训.

哈姆林的心脏骤停甚至刺激了州和联邦立法. 纽约 now requires all camps and youth sports organizations to develop AED plans and to have at least one AED-trained staff member on hand. 俄亥俄州再次努力要求学校配备自动除颤器, 弗吉尼亚州也在进行类似的努力. The federal Access to aed Act would create grants for elementary and secondary schools to purchase, 维护和提供aed的培训.

The focus on how to save a life was particularly intense in Cincinnati – where Hamlin collapsed – and Buffalo, 纽约, 比尔之家.

“这是所有人都在谈论的, 直到今天,拉斯·莱昂斯说, a Bills season ticket holder who was inspired to take the team-sponsored 心肺复苏 training. 里昂, 谁曾经卖过便携式除颤器, reached out to the Bills to see what more he could do to educate the local community.

“他们说到体育场来吧. 我们要去见达玛,莱昂斯说, 谁带着他12岁的儿子参加了训练, 大卫, 并得到了一个工具包，可以培训300多人. He has since given a presentation at his son's school and is helping to organize 心肺复苏 training for his daughter Elizabeth's 500-member youth soccer league. 他甚至帮助联盟购买了自己的AED.

他说:“我们的展馆里没有AED. “如果有人掉下去，而我们没有装备，我会崩溃的."

劳拉还接受了心肺复苏术培训, 然后开始鼓励其他人接受培训, 包括14岁的昆汀和10岁的阿里. She immediately called her kids' football and cross-country coaches to see if they always had access to aed. 足球教练没有.

"I told the coach there will be one at practice, and Quentin will have it," she said.

劳拉 said her son teases her that she may sometimes forget her phone but never forgets to bring the AED to a game. “我告诉他，他可以随意取笑我，但我希望他做好准备."

她女儿的越野教练, 谁曾经在跑步时心脏病发作过, 多年来一直带着AED去参加比赛和训练. 劳拉计划倡导在当地公园系统中放置除颤器.

里昂是比尔队的球迷，他希望尽可能传播更多的意识和训练. Even if most of it goes unused, he said, saving a single life would make it worthwhile.

"Wouldn't it be awesome," he asked, "if we were able to make even a tiny little difference?"