Twelve defibrillation shocks were administered during the trip, an exceptional amount for a human body to endure, especially as each shock Joules that fails to return the heart to normal decreases the chance of survival. On the Monday following the game, Muamba regained consciousness against all expectations. Later that day he even expressed regret that his collapse had caused the game to be abandoned.
By Tuesday he diagnosed himself as feeling fine; luckily the experts avowed him of that view and kept him in intensive care. He eventually stayed in hospital for one month, being discharged on April 16, having been fitted with an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator ICD , a device able to perform defibrillation and pacing of the heart.
Following on from the abandoned game at Tottenham, football fans banded together to show support for Muamba and his recovery. Other fan-bases also displayed banners at games, such as Arsenal.
He was then invited back to White Hart Lane where he received a standing ovation from Tottenham fans as he strode to the spot where he had previously collapsed. Visibly moved to tears, he returned the thanks to the crowd, marking a beautiful example of how football can transcend rivalries. Muamba later returned to that same spot of the pitch for an interview with Gary Lineker, the former Tottenham star striker and now TV presenter.
Again, Muamba was visibly upset, having difficulty in controlling his emotions as the interview began. Talking about the game, Muamba recalled that during the match he felt fine, before after missing a chance moving back into the midfield, after which he suddenly felt very dizzy and experienced double-vision before collapsing to the turf.
There was no pain beforehand, just dizziness and then blackness. He recalled how both his father and brother were in the crowd, while his wife and son were at home watching on TV, and one cannot even start to imaginewhat they must have been going through as he lay there surrounded by medics.
He did reveal that he had watched the footage twice since, the first time being with his mother and the second on his own to try and obtain some closure.
Three months later, Muamba retired from professional football on the advice of his medical team. He had initially hoped to resume his playing career but subsequent discussions made him appreciate that the risk of such an action was too high.
Since retiring from the game, Muamba has continued to be active within the footballing world. It should be stressed though that this is not the first time that such a collapse has happened during a football match and unfortunately fatalities have occurred. Tragically it was during that game that, like Muamba, Foe suddenly collapsed to the floor in the 72nd minute. Medics spent 45 minutes trying to restart his heart but to no avail. Signs of fatigue had been shown by Foe shortly before his collapse, which led to thoughts of substitution, but he had signaled a desire to play on.
During six and a half seasons at Newcastle, he only scored one goal, but that goal will always be immortalized by the Geordie faithful, being a 25 yard volley which saw Newcastle snatch a draw from a home Premier League game against Arsenal in which they had trailed at half-time. After that he eventually ended up playing for Beijing Enterprises in the Chinese League where, on June 5, , he suffered a fatal cardiac arrest during training, aged Tobin said he and the other paramedics who rushed onto the field treated Muamba for a total of 48 minutes on the pitch and en route to London's Chest Hospital, but it took a further 30 minutes to restart the midfielder's heart.
Tobin said. Photos: Sports stars with heart problems. Critical condition — Fabrice Muamba collapsed during an English soccer match between his club Bolton and Tottenham on Saturday, and is in the intensive care unit of a London heart hospital. Africa's anguish — While Muamba made it to the hospital alive, Cameroon's Marc-Vivien Foe could not be revived after falling to the pitch during a Confederations Cup semifinal against Colombia in Spain suffers — Spanish football has been hit by two such tragedies in recent times.
In August , Espanyol skipper Daniel Jarque died after suffering a heart attack while at a preseason training camp in Italy. Cardiac arrest — Two years earlier, Sevilla's Antonio Puerta died in hospital after suffering a heart attack during a Spanish league match against Getafe. The prolonged cardiac arrest damaged his organs and led to a lack of oxygen to the brain. Cardinals' loss — In , St. Louis Cardinals baseball pitcher Darryl Kile was found dead in his hotel bed, having failed to turn up for pregame warm-ups following a heart attack.
He was diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy -- one of the most common heart conditions. A survivor — Another former NBA star, Arvydas Sabonis, survived a heart attack while in a game in his native Lithuania in at the age of Young, fit athletes have hearts that are a little different from most people. Their well-exercised heart muscle has been reshaped to adapt to the stress of regular, vigorous training.
This remodelling of the heart is useful, as it helps to pump blood more effectively round the body. But in HOCM, a genetic abnormality causes the muscle wall of the heart to grow far thicker than it should. Repeated training makes the problem worse — the muscle wall can become so thick that it stops the normal flow of blood going in and out of the heart. This is where things get dangerous.
A heart that cannot pump blood properly causes problems that usually affect far older and far less healthy people. Shortly after 7pm, the ambulance slewed around the last corner in Bethnal Green. The London Chest Hospital has teams of cardiologists, brain specialists, and something that they call "intensitists". Some had been listening to the match on the radio, and wondering whether they might get the call to readiness. The journey had been six miles longer, on a Saturday teatime, than it might had the ambulance made a routine trip to the North Middlesex, were it not for the intervention of Deaner.
According to him: "We went straight into the lab and I put a bigger line into a vein under his shoulder blade and quickly scrubbed up. We got access to arteries and a bigger vein and carried on giving shocks and drugs. Muamba's team physician, Jonathan Tobin, was suddenly out of the loop.
Against all expectations, Muamba regained consciousness on the Monday after his collapse. He recognised his fiancee, Shauna Magunda, and asked after their son Joshua. Within hours he had talked to a team-mate and expressed dismay to his father that his collapse caused the match to be abandoned. By Tuesday, Muamba was declaring himself "fine", but he remains in intensive care at the London Chest Hospital and, according to his family, faces a long road to recovery.
Experts say the swift action of medics at the scene undoubtedly helped his chances. Deaner said the London response had been "faultless: one thing after another just went right. He was rather taken by the dry response, the first piece of humour from a grim afternoon.
Muamba replied: "I try. When Bolton Wanderers star Fabrice Muamba, 23, dramatically collapsed last Saturday he came perilously close to death.
This is the remarkable story of the team that saved him.
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