Buffalo’s Damar Hamlin may have suffered an extremely rare one-in-264 million injury after he experienced a medical emergency during a live game, his doctors said.

The NLF star suffered a cardiac arrest during the Buffalo Bills’ game against the Cincinnati Bengals.

The 24-year-old stood up after a routine tackle but he stayed before falling to the ground.

Paramedics rushed to the scene and an ambulance arrived within five minutes.

Coaches and players from both teams knelt around the Buffalo Bills safety and prayed for his health. According to reports, he was rushed to hospital in ‘critical condition.’

In a statement on Twitter, Buffalo Bills said: “Damar Hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest following a hit in our game versus the Bengals. His heartbeat was restored on the field and he was transferred to the UC Medical Center for further testing and treatment. He is currently sedated and listed in critical condition.”

Speaking to CNN, Hamlin’s uncle Dorrian Glenn revealed that Hamlin had to be resuscitated twice.

“His heart had went out so they had to resuscitate him twice. They resuscitated him on the field before they brought him to the hospital and then they resuscitated him a second time when they got him to the hospital,” he said.

Doctors believe that the routine tackle had disrupted the 24-year-old’s blood flow and heartbeat and may have also occurred during a very vulnerable moment in the heart’s electrical cycle.

This may have triggered commotio cordis, a condition which happens when a person experiences trauma to the chest that can result in additional waves of electricity passing through the heart muscle.

According to UNC Health Talk, the extra waves throw off the person’s normal heart rhythm, which can be life-threatening.

The impact prevents the heart from circulating blood to the rest of the body, and the window for this to occur is only 20 milliseconds, making Hamlin’s injury 1-in-264 million!

Doctors said that the critical question is how long his brain was left without oxygen as brain tissue dies right away when there is lack of oxygen.

Speaking to Daily Mail, Dr. Deepak Bhatt, a top cardiologist at Mount Sinai Heart, said: “The first thought that occurred to me was that it was something called commotio cordis. It really refers to the classic situation of injury to the chest.

“This is usually in baseball when someone hits a line into the pitcher’s chest and that sudden impact can trigger abnormal heart rhythms. The only way to come out of that is to deliver an electric shock and perform CPR.”

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