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Originally Posted by platon20
I am an ER/ICU doctor who just joined this forum. I wanted to comment on the hospital/medical angle here. Just from what I saw on the video, his injuries could certainly be fatal. The difficulty breathing you hear at the end of the video could be caused by several different things...
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Its also perfectly consistent with a person being knocked unconscious during some intense physical exertion with psychological stress, to which a huge amount of sympathetic hormones have been dumped in their system, resulting in markedly increased oxygen demand, heart and respiratory rate. Its definitely a nasty head stomp that I never want to see, but many many times more people get knocked out cold by nasty blows to the head and suffer no permanent or serious injury than those who do.
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Either way, if he came into my ER like that, I'd probably suction him out and possibly intubate him depending on how alert he is. Its an automatic ICU admission in my view.
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If he came into your ER like that, it would mean he was unconscious for a prolonged period of time, unless the injury occurred in the ER parking lot. How long the person was unconscious and his neurological status (e.g. GCS and other checks) @ 5...15...30 minute intervals post-arousal would be more deterministic for admission than the mere fact there was loss of consciousness, as I'm sure you're aware.