And I imagine the UNLV administration circled the wagons and went after stuff like that.
Former Rutgers DL Ryan Keeler passed away
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And I imagine the UNLV administration circled the wagons and went after stuff like that.
Police also noted in the documents Keeler was found deceased laying face-up in his bed. They said an empty prescription medication bottle was found at the scene.
Wtf did they give him?
At this point, an autopsy and blood work needs to be completed. An empty prescription bottle may not mean much at all depending on what and how many pills were prescribed. Either way, if it was prescribed by them, one would hope they didn't tell him to take as many as he needed with no regards to proper dosing. The bottle can also be totally unrelated to the medicine prescribed as well. Being a football player, I wonder if he was on any pain killers for injuries/surgeries...legally or illegally obtained.
Now is not the time to rely or speculate based Reddit or Twitter posts. And unless there some verification it is best they were deleted.
It appears Ryan Keeler was suffering with nausea and had a fever since Feb.13 .He was given meds by the director of their medical staff and was found on Feb.19 in his room dead by another worried staff member. Definitely sad , strange and possibly avoidable .
Don't think the bolded part is correct. The director of sports medicine is not a Medical Doctor. Doubltful he could prescribe of "give" a player medicine. The police report said:
"a man with the title of "director sports medicine" told them Keeler had been prescribed medication on Feb. 17 ... and had just visited him on Feb. 19 as well."
Can someone with more medical education and training than I comment on how hard this to diagnose?
More easily detected with an echocardiogram vs a standard EKG. Same thing basketball players Hank Gathers and Reggie Lewis passed away from.
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). To make it as easy as I can, he had an enlarged heart. That enlarged heart results in a thickened heart muscle which made him more susceptible to heart rhythm irregularities which can be fatal. In this day and age, I'd think echocardiograms are standard for collegiate athletes and this would have easily detected it. Maybe it isnt a routine test, but it should be. An echo is noninvasive and can be completed soup to nuts in about 30 minutes. "HCM is the most common cause of sudden cardiac death in young people and athletes under the age of 35."
They really should test all players for this. I remember hearing about this condition a few years ago when that PSU rb had to retire because of it.
IIRC, you are an MD. Mayo Clinic supports your thought on echocardiograms:
"Sudden cardiac death. Rarely, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy can cause heart-related sudden death in people of all ages. Because many people with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy don't realize they have it, sudden cardiac death might be the first sign of the condition. It can happen in seemingly healthy young people, including high school athletes and other young, active adults."
"Prevention
There is no known prevention for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. It's important to identify the condition as early as possible to guide treatment and prevent complications.If you have a first-degree relative — a parent, sibling or child — with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, you might be referred for genetic testing to screen for the condition. However, not everyone with HCM has a currently detectable mutation. Also, some insurance companies don't cover genetic testing.
If genetic testing isn't done, or if the results aren't helpful, then a health care provider might recommend repeated echocardiograms if you have a family member with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Adolescents and competitive athletes should be screened once a year. Adults who don't compete in athletics should be screened every five years."
Coroner makes ruling in death of UNLV football player Ryan Keeler
What about the reports that he'd been ill the week leading up to this?
What about the rumor that the medical staff pushed him off the night before and told him to come back the next day?
Something doesn't smell right on this.
What about the reports that he'd been ill the week leading up to this?
What about the rumor that the medical staff pushed him off the night before and told him to come back the next day?
Something doesn't smell right on this.
I was half thinking something wasn't right with this story either. It's hard to refute a HCM diagnosis though as the heart is weighed and wall muscles in the different areas of the heart are measured for unusual thickening. Unless it's a shady coroner, gotta go with it. As far as the lead up to the death, with HCM fatigue, weakness, shortness of breath, possibly even passing out are common depending on how compromised the heart muscle is. Kinda sounds like the same symptoms of dehydration and over training, hayna? It COULD be very easy to miss for team doctors as physical exhaustion/dehydration is probably one of the most common things they see. I forget all the reports prior to him dying and who knows what other symptoms/events happened which are not public.
Fever and nausea can be a symptom of heart issues. Feels like this is something that should have been caught.