Posted: 5/16/2011 5:45:01 PM EDT
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Very sad. One of his former teammates had donated a kidney. Springs had refused a kidney from his son (also in the NFL). ESPN.com: NFL [Print without images] Thursday, May 12, 2011 Updated: May 13, 10:50 AM ET Ron Springs dies; had been in coma By Calvin Watkins ESPNDallas.com Former Cowboys running back Ron Springs died Thursday of a heart attack. He was 54. Springs was in a coma after going into cardiac arrest in October 2007 during an operation to have a cyst removed from an elbow. The latter years of Springs' life were punctuated when his former Cowboys teammate and best friend Everson Walls donated his kidney to save his life. The two started a foundation that touched the lives of many, and they even wrote a book about their journey. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/print?id=6536754&type=HeadlineNews&imagesPrint=off |
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Yep. The guy got his kidney transplant. Was doing fine. Went to get a cyst removed from his elbow as some surgery center.
First off, he is large, diabetic and a renal patient. Not the usual surgery center candidate. Usually, you try to do healthier people in stand alone surgery centers because it just isn't an ideal place to deal with complications or difficulties. I've heard through the grapevine that he had a history of being difficult to intubate (place a breathing tube in windpipe) but can't confirm. In anesthesia the name of the game is Turn off brain or pain (depending if pt is awake or not), make air go in and out, make blood go round and round, turn on brain. The chain was broken about right .................................HEREHEREHEREHERE............................ So he was vegetative and finally succumbed to a heart attack. Very sad. |
These older guys didn't make the huge amounts the guys playing now do. |
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Not to make light of the situation, but sometimes sh*t happens. All the comorbidities Springs had no doubt contributed to the outcome along with errors (if any) by the docs/nurses. If I had to guess there was probably a series of poor decisions. One obvious one was doing him in a surgery center. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: RIP,he never was a very good RB  He was an excellent blocking back tho, which served him well in the NFL. He was also a very very nice man, I met him a couple times (he used to live in my town). http://www.itsalreadysigned4u.com/shop/media/images/product_detail/ape-springs-8x10.jpg He went to Ohio State. Yup, I wore his same number in Biddy Football, which I played while he was still at OSU. Right after he got out of the NFL he moved to Newark Ohio, which was kind of cool because Ray Griffin (DB brother of Archie) and Ozzie Newsome both lived in the same town, and were all friends (Ray was a car salesman). We saw them around town quite a bit. |
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Quoted: Patients with brittle bodies often don't tolerate stress very well under the best of circumstances. Quoted: Not to make light of the situation, but sometimes sh*t happens. All the comorbidities Springs had no doubt contributed to the outcome along with errors (if any) by the docs/nurses. If I had to guess there was probably a series of poor decisions. One obvious one was doing him in a surgery center. |
| can't ventilate ,can't intubate , that is an anesthetists nightmare. Or he might have had laryngospasm after being extubated. overweight, large jaw would be difficult to mask ventilate. the clock is ticking too, you only have up to four minutes before brain damage. One reason the USA got ahead of the soviets in the space race in the late 60s was the father of the russian space program was having a minor surgery and the anesthetist was unable to ventilate him. |
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can't ventilate ,can't intubate , that is an anesthetists nightmare. Or he might have had laryngospasm after being extubated. overweight, large jaw would be difficult to mask ventilate. the clock is ticking too, you only have up to four minutes before brain damage. One reason the USA got ahead of the soviets in the space race in the late 60s was the father of the russian space program was having a minor surgery and the anesthetist was unable to ventilate him. What I have heard is that they were doing it MAC or block. Had trouble with ventilation. Attempted LMA and couldn't ventilate with LMA Struggled. Gave paralytic (sux I assume) and were then unable to intubate. |
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