Posted on 07/08/2017 3:26:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Sorana Cirstea has criticized the length of time it took for Wimbledon medics to treat Bethanie Mattek-Sands as she lay screaming in agony on court.
Mattek-Sands needed morphine and oxygen as she went into shock on Court 17 after appearing to dislocate her right kneecap in a terrifying collapse. Cirstea, who was first on the spot to help her stricken friend, felt the American wildcard was left too long crying in pain.
“I saw she was on the floor, then she started screaming. I went over. I saw her knee out,” said the Romanian, who advanced to the third round as a result of the injury. “I turned around and told them to bring a stretcher or something. Because I think everyone froze. No one was having any reaction.
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It’s England, after all.
They were just going to let her die.
What do you expect from the NHS?
Your “not-so-friendly” government-controlled medical care at work.
Socialized medicine: “DMV healthcare”. “Just take a number, maybe we’ll get to you.”
Reminds me of when Mary Pierce got injured at a tournament in Linz, France in 2006.
Snowflakes.
Try walking 36 miles out of the Chosin Reservoir with a knee shattered by shrapnel like an old NCO of mine did.
Then describe agony.
Oops, meant Linz Austria.
What a bunch of whiners.
It’s easy to criticize.
Is it true the NHS is hiring fired CNN personnel?
The friend says she was waiting for 10 or 15 minutes for help. The officials say the first bit of help arrived in about one minute.
Hmmm......
She’s a cyborg? Didn’t know they felt pain.
I dislocated my right knee, leg sticking out ninety degrees to the from where it was supposed to be, age sixteen in wrestling practice when the guy I was practicing against did a single leg take down at the wrong angle. Besides a sound that resembled a thick maple branch snapping (my ligaments and cartilage I presume) I don’t recall feeling much pain till later. The brain has a way of filtering out stuff it knows you can’t deal with immediately. But it was still a “You’ve got to be f***ing kidding me!” moment, so I do empathize with the young lady.
The video doesn’t really show how delayed the medical response may have been. The player goes down. She curls up clutching her knee. We’ve all seen (too many) athletes go down with knee injuries, and this is standard behavior. Then she starts screaming for help. That’s what is odd. She seems to have panicked. I’ve seen football and soccer players at all levels from U16 up to the pros go down with ACL and other knee injuries. They’re invariably stoic about it.
I was at a basketball game where a girl dislocated her knee. It was immediately obvious just to look at it.
As it happened, her coach was a Dr. He looked her over but said she would have to be treated at a hospital.
I was rec director and had a member of my crew phone for an ambulance.
The next day, I was talking to one of the paramedics who transported her. He told me that she was in real pain and they were given permission to give her morphine. I did not even know they used it in the U.S.
I’ve seen football and soccer players at all levels from U16 up to the pros go down with ACL and other knee injuries. They’re invariably stoic about it.
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She’s a girl.....
” I did not even know they used it in the U.S.”
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What did you think they used?
Morphine usage is fairly routine.
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I’ve only seen one ACL tear in girls youth soccer (plus various concussions and other minor injuries), but that player didn’t make a sound. I’ve seen several in women’s professional soccer; they’re as phlegmatic as the men.
I guess I never thought about it too much.
I used to work with a guy who was in combat in Viet Nam. He once mentioned to me that the South Vietnamese medics carried morphine but the U.S. ones did not.
I probably should not have assumed that to be true.
Oh bullcrap. A destroyed knee hurts no matter where you are.
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