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Dr Hilary Jones has said that Christian Eriksen was in the ‘best place’ to suffer a cardiac arrest after the footballer collapsed on the pitch during Denmark’s opening Euro 2020 match with Finland.
The former Tottenham ace underwent prolonged treatment on the pitch on Saturday before he was taken to hospital. It’s since been confirmed that his condition is stable and he continues to be hospitalised for further examination.
The frightening incident was discussed on today’s Good Morning Britain, with Susanna Reid asking Dr Hilary what factors saved Eriksen’s life.
‘Well, he was in the very best place to have a cardiac arrest: on a football field with a defibrillator handy and a trained team who know how to give CPR,’ Dr Hilary replied.
‘In this country, we get a success rate of about 7% when people have a cardiac arrest in the street. In other countries it’s nearer to 40%.
‘We need more defibrillator, we need more people to be trained in CPR, it’s not difficult to do.
‘So, there’s a job to be done there.’
Dr Hilary added: ‘He would have had an abnormal heart rhythm occurring out of the blue, completely unpredictably, and they were able to restore that cardiac rhythm.’
Following Eriksen’s collapse, Denmark’s team doctor Morten Boesen has confirmed the player suffered cardiac arrest and that ‘he was gone’ prior to being resuscitated.
At a press conference arranged by the Danish football federation on Sunday afternoon, Boesen said: ‘He was gone. We did cardiac resuscitation, it was a cardiac arrest.
‘How close were we to losing him? I don’t know, but we got him back after one defib, so that’s quite fast.’
Boesen added: ‘We don’t have any explanation why it happened. The details about what happened I am not quite sure of because I am not a cardiologist, I will leave that to the experts. I didn’t see it live, only on screens afterwards.’
The team doctor revealed that Denmark’s players and staff were visited by a psychologist on Saturday night, and in hindsight feels the game should not have resumed.
Good Morning Britain airs weekdays at 6am on ITV.
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