The death of a 17-year-old badminton player is hard for the organizers, and perhaps the tragedy could have been avoided

Horsen Brooks

2024-07-02 05:09Creators in the field of sports

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01 Zhang Zhijie, a 17-year-old Chinese badminton player, suddenly fainted on the court and died after rescue efforts, and the cause was diagnosed as sudden sports death.

02 Zhang Zhijie almost no one took first aid measures after he fell to the ground, and the speed of the response at the scene was distressing.

03 Compared with the successful rescue cases such as Erikson, Zhang Zhijie's tragedy may have been avoided.

The 04 incident hopes to be an opportunity to promote badminton to protect the safety of athletes and prevent similar tragedies from happening again.

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Yesterday on the badminton court, a huge tragedy happened.

Zhang Zhijie, a 17-year-old player of the Chinese badminton team, suddenly fainted on the court, and died suddenly after being sent to the hospital.

This is a talented player who is generally favored by die-hard fans and coaching staff, with great offensive talent, and many people see the shadow of young Lin Dan in him, but now ...... There is only sorrow and regret left.

It is sad that Chinese badminton has lost such a talent, but what is even more unacceptable is that the lack of first aid measures in an emergency may be the culprit that killed the last possibility of rescuing Zhang Zhijie.

01 Sudden death from exercise, the shadow in the stadium

From the remaining game video, we can see that Zhang Zhijie's previous performance was basically normal, but at a certain moment, he suddenly stood unsteadily, fell to the ground and convulsed, and quickly lost consciousness.

According to the statement of the Indonesian Badminton Association and the local hospital at the press conference, it can be basically concluded that the cause of Zhang Zhijie's death was sudden sports death - that is, non-traumatic sudden cardiac death that occurred during or shortly after exercise.

When it comes to sudden death in sports, veteran sports fans should be no stranger.

High-intensity exercise in professional sports will inevitably trigger a large amount of adrenaline secretion and a rapid rise in heart rate, which will bring a huge burden on the heart and blood vessels, which is also more likely to induce various cardiovascular diseases, and in the worst case, lead to sudden death of athletes.

Over the past 20 years, hundreds of athletes have died suddenly at the scene of competition or on the sports field.

One of the more well-known related incidents was the sudden death of Cameroon international Vivianfo in the 2003 Confederations Cup – an incident that also made FIFA officially concerned about the risk of sudden death due to sports, and required tournament organizers to be equipped with AEDs (automated external defibrillators).

Spanish legend Sergio Ramos, his former best friend Puerta, also had a heart attack on the field, and although the rescue was successful, he fainted again after leaving the game and never woke up.

Italian international Astori died of a heart attack at the hotel......

In the last European Championship, Danish player Eriksen also fell to the ground suddenly in the game, but fortunately because of the timely rescue, he was able to survive from the hands of death, and then made a successful comeback, and played for his country again in this European Cup.

Compared with football, badminton, a sport that almost constantly changes direction and accelerates and decelerates, the intensity is only high, not low, and the athlete's heart problems are even more obvious.

Everyone should still remember the five men's doubles pairs of Ethan, Hengji, Jackie Chan, Diamond and Fengyun in the past.

Among them, Zheng Jae-cheng in the Jackie Chan group died in 2018, and the cause of death was a heart attack.

Guido, who was in the Hengge group, died in 2021, and the cause of death was also a heart attack.

Mogenson, who was in Ethan's group, was found to have an intracranial hemangioma and had to undergo a craniotomy.

Cai Yun in the Fengyun group was instructed to have a heart attack in the provincial team when he was young......

Four of the top players in the five major pairs all had similar cardiovascular problems, which shows that high-intensity badminton tournaments do have a high risk of heart health.

Under such a premise, should the organizers of badminton tournaments do a better job of emergency plans and relevant training for event staff?

Unfortunately, no.

Zhang Zhijie's unfortunate death is not only an unforeseen event, but also a man-made disaster.

02 Negligence and negligence, perhaps tragedy could have been avoided

Let's recap, why Erickson was able to be rescued at that time -

As soon as he went into shock on the pitch, captain Kjaer called the team doctor.

Eight seconds later, the team doctor was in place.

Half a minute later, the AED was applied.

This stabilized his vital signs and allowed him to support until the ambulance arrived.

It is important to know that the golden rescue time of sudden cardiac death is only a short 2-5 minutes, and the sooner the intervention rescue is carried out, the higher the probability of success, and once it exceeds 5 minutes, the rescue success rate is almost less than 10%......

Obviously, the speed with which the patient is treated almost determines the chance of survival, as well as the physical recovery after survival.

In contrast, almost no one reacted to take first aid measures after Zhang Zhijie fell to the ground, most of them were looking around on the sidelines, and what was even more outrageous was that when the Chinese coaching staff wanted to enter the stadium for observation, they were actually instructed by the on-site referee not to interfere with the game......

And by the time the medical treatment was admitted, it had been more than 40 seconds since Zhang Zhijie fell to the ground!

For the organizers and organizers of major international sports competitions, this kind of reaction speed is really a bit too outrageous.

After that, rescuers flipped Zhang Zhijie into a supine position, spent another 10 seconds, and did not perform any cardiac compressions to try CPR – not to mention that the AED did not have time to be in place.

This is very, very distressing.

Although the medical team sent Zhang Zhijie to the hospital, according to the medical report, he had no pulse and no breathing on his own at that time, even if the hospital later performed a three-hour cardiac resuscitation, it was already useless.

Of course, we can't take it for granted that the first aid will be able to rescue Zhang Zhijie in a timely and timely manner, but ...... What if it could?

In any case, the tragedy has already happened, and we cannot turn back time, I only hope that this tragedy of Zhang Zhijie can be an opportunity to promote the safety of athletes in badminton, just like the Weiwei Anfu incident, so as to avoid the same tragedy in the future.

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