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Graffiti and best wishes for Christian Eriksen in the EM fan zone in Copenhagen
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The Danish professional footballer Christian Eriksen is given a defibrillator a few days after his cardiac arrest during the European Championship game against Finland.
The Danish association announced.
The device is similar to a pacemaker and is implanted in people who are at increased risk of irregular heartbeat.
“Various heart examinations were carried out on Christian.
It was then decided that he should have an ICD.
This decision is necessary after cardiac arrhythmias had triggered a heart attack in him, "the Danish team doctor Morten Boesen is quoted in the association's statement.
Eriksen himself had already consented to this treatment.
The use of a defibrillator does not automatically mean that the 29-year-old has to end his professional career.
The Dutch international Daley Blind, for example, continues to play competitive sports.
Sports cardiologist calls further career "rather unlikely"
The sports cardiologist Jürgen Scharhag called the continuation of Eriksen's career in an interview with SPIEGEL, however, "on the bottom line rather unlikely." The decisive factor for fitness for sports is "always the underlying heart disease - not the implanted defibrillator," said Scharhag. If a heart disease is so severe that you have to implant a defibrillator, "I would advise against competitive sports with intense and high stress on the heart."
Eriksen had collapsed on the pitch in the first half of the game between Denmark and Finland (0-1).
According to the emergency doctor at the European Championship stadium in Copenhagen, he was conscious again after an electric shock.
After just a few minutes of cardiac massage, the player was defibrillated once, the intensive care physician Jens Kleinefeld from Cologne told the “Funke Mediengruppe”: “About 30 seconds later the player opened his eyes and I was able to speak to him directly.
That was a very moving moment, because with such medical emergencies in everyday life the chances of success are much lower. "
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