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Medical Emergencies Caught On Live TV

live tv means you can't plan for what's about to happen and sometimes there are some serious medical surprises let's watch it together it looks like reuben is in the lead and here i'll wipe out that could be a knee injury an ankle injury and a head injury and a broken rib all in one riverside park robleth global news great sign off the fall was so bad it reminds me of johnny knoxville's thing with the [Applause] bull costume contest we do it every year so it was a lot of fun let's get started our first caress oh oh the show cut to black and went to an extra long commercial break but when it did come back on wendy was back up that was not a stunt i'm overheated in my costume and i did pass out but you know what i'm a champ and i'm back get evaluated overheating is a real issue dehydrating is a real issue heat stroke is a real issue and it shouldn't be oh i just had a heat stroke i fainted i'm good to go now that's not how it works okay a little dancing a little dancing my dance moves are just as good as this yeah what can go wrong medically here [Music] you okay [Applause] usually when patients describe a knee snapping they mean the knee gave out most commonly this can happen with a meniscus or an acl sometimes a pcl injury if there's some kind of like weird collision that happened so oh i see what happened okay so there's potential for a meniscus injury there as well as an mcl injury at that moment if you have a tear of that ligament you're just gonna get so much swelling and bruising he's gonna get an x-ray to make sure that no bones are broken he's gonna get some crutches he's gonna get follow-up get an mri find out that the medial meniscus and the mcl are torn potentially either do rehab and or surgery and we'll be back on his feet dancing his little heart away [Music] the problem is oh i did not expect a face-first plummet like that call for help first thing that we do call for help before even investigating and the microphone's still in her hair the first thing you want to know is making sure that the person is conscious are they breathing do they have a pulse remember if there's no pulse you call 9-1-1 and you start those chest compressions chest compressions chest compressions but it looks like she's kind of with it so my prediction here and suspicion is that she had something known as a vasovagal singapore episode where because of nerves because of extreme tension her blood vessels dilated her heart rate dropped and as a result she wasn't bringing enough circulation to her brain and she collapsed this is very dangerous not because of the actual situation that's happening with the low blood pressure but the fall the fall is a dangerous part like she fell face first as an emt you're really in a bad spot because you have no idea what just happened the person isn't talking you're trying to get information you don't know does this person have underlying medical conditions so for their role the most important thing is stabilizing the patient getting them to an area where they can receive adequate care [Music] she was treated for dehydration released from the hospital she returned for the show stop around okay so dehydration can precipitate a vasovagal episode but it could also cause a fainting episode all on its own because what happens is if you're dehydrated meaning you haven't consumed enough beverages you don't have water content you actually lose a little bit of blood volume and when that happens you can't generate enough pressure to bring the oxygenated blood to where it needs to go like the brain and the vital organs especially when you're standing and as a result with this blood pressure drop you actually just faint as a life-saving mechanism your brain wants you to go flat because when you're flat the lower blood pressure can still circulate the oxygenated blood throughout your body correcting dehydration in a severely dehydrated individual is also very important and needs to be done carefully because if you rehydrate too quickly with the incorrect type of fluids you can actually cause swelling in the brain and cause the patient to die that way there's a lot of things that need to be taken into account here oh she looks stressed [Music] is she okay [Music] again very difficult to figure out what's going on i like this position it makes it easier for the blood to return back to the heart and go up to the brain the kayla has a condition that's pretty rare in seventh grade i was diagnosed with vasovagal syncope that is not a rare condition now maybe in individuals who it happens to quite often is a rare condition there's two mechanisms at play during this type of syncope one is increased parasympathetic nerve output meaning that we're increasing that rest digest mechanism nervous system in your body that opens up blood vessels which is good when you're lying down and relaxed not good when you're trying to perform physically on stage because it drops your blood pressure therefore not bringing oxygenated blood to the brain and then at the same time it shuts down sympathetic nerve firing so think about this the blood vessels in your legs expand so blood pressure drops now if your heart was allowed to sympathetically respond it would increase its cardiac output by beating faster as a result you'd be okay you wouldn't even feel that something's going on but because you're shutting down the sympathetic and over driving the parasympathetic you're creating a really bad disimbalance that causes someone to faint and potentially really hurt themselves well a very very heavy heavy divertation tonight we had a very dare garrison by let's go to terrorist terrorism to the bit they had the pet do we know what happened here look at a potential stroke she claims it was a migraine there are types of migraines that could present with neurologic symptoms known as complex migraines i would want a full workup to see if there was in fact a stroke now in young otherwise healthy people sometimes the cause of a stroke can happen as a result of a pfo that generally people don't know about that they have but as a result if you ever have a blood clot in your leg and it starts traveling to your heart it can transfer instead of going into your lungs into the left side of your heart through that hole and as a result gets shot up to the brain leading to a stroke this is me 10 years ago dan harris i've read this book where he talks about this very moment researchers report people who take cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins for at least five years may also lower their risk for cancer but it's too early to prescribe statins slowly for cancer production at this point i realize i'm helpless so i bail right in the middle uh that does back to you we're gonna go back now to robin and charlie i knew with rock solid certainty that i had just had a panic attack on national television panic attacks are a real phenomenon and people think that they're all in their heads panic attacks may start in the mind but they continue out to the rest of your body which means that you feel like your heart is racing a million miles an hour you can't take a deep breath there's an impending feeling of doom you feel weak you feel numbness tingling that's why so many people will describe it as a near heart attack episode and sometimes we do want to rule out a heart attack it's been years in war zones where i covered the heroics of our men and women overseas and got a real taste of both the horror and the adrenaline of combat after years of always barreling forward when i finally slowed down it was as if my mind revolted and i got depressed and so in my free time i briefly but stupidly began self-medicating and it was those recreational drugs my doctor would later tell me that almost certainly produced the on-air panic attack i wouldn't say it's necessarily those drugs that cause it they could have indirectly caused it by increasing the feelings of anxiety because a lot of people will take feel-good drugs when they're depressed and as a result those feel-good drugs will mess with your neurotransmitters leading to higher highs but also lower lows and as a result withdrawal symptoms that can make it feel like you're having a panic attack or make it feel much worse so much so that it could disrupt you in your place of work i do recommend you read dan harris as 10 happier check it out on audible my partner stuff went wrong during my own live event my tour my alive tour click here to check out everything that went wrong as always stay happy and healthy and sorry for the hair [Music]

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