At the 12th Annual Piedmont Heart Napa Cardiology Conference, Dr. Edward Gerstenfeld with UCSF talks about blunt impact to the chest leading to cardiac arrest during sports injuries. He refers to two video examples of commotio cordis: a martial arts tournament and NFL player Damar Hamlin. 

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Dr. Edward Gerstenfeld with the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) talks about contact sports and commotio cordis at the 12th Annual Piedmont Heart Napa Cardiology Conference. 

Commotio Cordis is defined as 'instantaneous cardiac arrest [that] is produced by non-penetrating chest blows in the absence of heart disease or identifiable morphologic injury to the chest wall or heart”. He refers to two video examples of commotio cordis: a martial arts tournament and NFL player Damar Hamlin. 

Save the date for Napa Cardiology 2024 June 13th- 15th, 2024.