Interesting how different things were with Marc Vivien Foe

In an interview with BBC Sport 2013, Sanjay Sharma, a Professor of Cardiology at St George’s, University of London admitted he was shocked when he watched footage of the on-field treatment that Foe received.

“A player went down without any contact, his eyes rolled back, he had no tone in his body, so it was clear something terrible had gone wrong,” he said as quoted by BBC in 2013.

“It took quite a while for the penny to drop that this was not going to get better with the magic sponge or fluid being poured on his head though. As cardiologists, we like resuscitation to start within a minute and a half of someone going down, and for the defibrillator to be used within three minutes.

“That gives us an outcome of about 70% living. Yet a good five, six minutes went by before I could see any positive action with Marc-Vivien Foe. That was perhaps because this was the first time something like this had happened in football. After all, you don’t expect a champion footballer like this to go down and die.”

Posted By: SCC 28 on June 15th 2021 at 11:18:35

Message Thread

Eriksen on insta (General Chat) - norwaay, Jun 15, 08:51:22
- Dead man walking. (General Chat) - usacanary, Jun 15, 18:59:50
- We were after him when he was at Ajax. (General Chat) - Trent_Canary, Jun 15, 08:58:43
  - Remember when he played in a pre-season friendly for them and was class (n/m) (General Chat) - Knitted Jesus, Jun 15, 09:16:23
    - it appears that Alderweireld was on duty that day too (General Chat) - Henclrikus, Jun 15, 10:49:05
- such great news (n/m) (General Chat) - shoddy, Jun 15, 08:58:32
  - Incredible relief (n/m) (General Chat) - norwaay, Jun 15, 09:07:27
    - One thing I found odd (General Chat) - SCC 28, Jun 15, 09:32:57
      - The one shock got his heart beating normally again (General Chat) - jamesward, Jun 15, 09:37:16
        
        True (General Chat) - SCC 28, Jun 15, 09:48:25
        
        I think everyone qas still utterly bewildered and still panicky that he may not make it. (n/m) (General Chat) - norwaay, Jun 15, 10:25:53
        
        I have minimal medical knowledge, but I would have thought if someone's heart stops once.. (General Chat) - SimonOTBC, Jun 15, 10:45:47
        
        Need adameckie here (General Chat) - SCC 28, Jun 15, 10:59:45
        
        That's why the ambulance response target is 8 minutes... (General Chat) - jamesward, Jun 15, 11:03:24
        
        Interesting how different things were with Marc Vivien Foe (General Chat) - SCC 28, Jun 15, 11:18:35
        
        It certainly wasn't the first time it happened (General Chat) - norwaay, Jun 15, 12:08:19
        
        Amazed his team mates had no idea it was serious (General Chat) - SCC 28, Jun 15, 12:27:35
        
        Christ. Poor bastard. You'd think in 2013 they'd have been more switched on (General Chat) - jamesward, Jun 15, 11:23:40
        
        2003 but still (General Chat) - SCC 28, Jun 15, 12:16:32

Reply to Message

In order to add a post to the WotB Message Board you must be a registered WotB user.

If you are not yet registered then please visit the registration page. You should ensure that their browser is setup to accept cookies.