Curtis Samuel had a "procedure to fix an irregular heartbeat"

[Davidson Deac II]

No offense to all the huddle medical experts, but I think I will wait and see what the doctors say as to when and if he can return. 

[FugAllY'all]

How does a thing like this get discovered? Would Samuel have reported some sort of symptoms to the trainer, or are players regularly hooked up to EKGs? Is it possible that this is a chronic issue he'd been managing with medicine that they finally decided needed a surgical intervention? 

[Cary Kollins]

Stupid black cat mascot I swear 

[crowntownpanther]

12 minutes ago, FugAllY'all said:

How does a thing like this get discovered? Would Samuel have reported some sort of symptoms to the trainer, or are players regularly hooked up to EKGs? Is it possible that this is a chronic issue he'd been managing with medicine that they finally decided needed a surgical intervention? 

Can’t speak to how players are evaluated, but I have been diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat.  I brought it up after some chest pain when exercising.  He could have brought it up, if it’s anything similar it is noticable.  That being said an EKG told me all is fine but maybe with a professional athlete they wanted to make sure.  Again, I don’t play sports for a living so who knows.  

[Mr. Scot]

31 minutes ago, PntherPryd said:

How come nobody is asking about MY HEART after reading this thread?????

 

It's generally assumed mods don't have one.

[KillerKat]

[Thama]

28 minutes ago, thebigcat said:

Sorry but you're not. I'm double boarded in medicine and here's a quick snippet

3 months is a reasonable timeframe to wait in someone already on AC to make sure they stay converted particularly if they are pAF to begin with. If a patient came to me with a history of stroke and documented conversion to sinus post-ablation, though, I wouldn't have any problem taking them off AC and certainly wouldn't start them on it if they weren't already on it.

27 minutes ago, thebigcat said:

When I gave medical opinion,  I was corrected by the arm chair cardiologist ;)

Not an armchair cardiologist, just a neurologist that has seen many hundreds of strokes and managed a lot of AF from that side of the picture.

[LinvilleGorge]

So, Huddle cardiologists, armchair or otherwise... dafuq does this mean regarding his football career?

[Leeroy Jenkins Ph.D.]

2 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

So, Huddle cardiologists, armchair or otherwise... dafuq does this mean regarding his football career?

Lot of speculation with absolutely no details of the situation. 

[LinvilleGorge]

Just now, Leeroy Jenkins Ph.D. said:

Lot of speculation with absolutely no details of the situation. 

Surely not! Not on the Huddle! No!

[PntherPryd]

32 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

It's generally assumed mods don't have one.

you've got a point there

[gorillamilitia13]

So much speculation going on. This sucks but all we can do is wait and see what unfolds. Hopefully he’s OK.

[top dawg]

2 hours ago, FakePlasticTrees said:

Probably a cardiac ablation for atrial fibrillation. It is a minor procedure.

https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/007368.htm

 

 

Exactly what I was going to say if no one said it.  Ablation, if that's in fact the procedure he had (which it probably was) is not really a big deal. 

[ladypanther]

Anything with the heart has got to be scary....especially in someone so young.  I hope he is ok....for a long, long time.