Paul Wylie

golden411 said:

Latest and greatest update via IN's tweeting:

Here's the latest update we received from a close friend of the Wylie family: "Paul is doing great! He is awake, talking and humbled by the outpouring. He is still trying to get his head around the reality of the ordeal of course, but is making jokes!"

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1slte24​

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golden411 said:

Latest and greatest update via IN's tweeting:

Here's the latest update we received from a close friend of the Wylie family: "Paul is doing great! He is awake, talking and humbled by the outpouring. He is still trying to get his head around the reality of the ordeal of course, but is making jokes!"

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1slte24​

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CoyoteChris said:

All I get is spam when I click on the twitlonger links.....so I will just repeat from my sourses....he at least WAS in a medically induced coma but from the above, it sounds like he has been brought out of it...
He is in my thoughts and I wish the best for him. I remember where I was when Sergei Grinkov died, he KNEW he had issues. PW is very physically fit and extreamely intelligent and not poor and one would hope he
didn't neglect proper preventative medical care. Lets just hope that whatever went wrong with his ticker can be fixed and he has a complete recovery.

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golden411 said:

Friday afternoon update -- new longer thank-you message with progress report from Paul's wife is in the photo attached to this IN tweet. (Cannot copy and paste the text from the photo.)

@icenetwork

Here's the latest update on Paul Wylie's condition, from his Facebook page via his wife, Kate...
12:49 PM - 24 Apr 2015
https://twitter.com/icenetwork/status/591690542196502528 (click to see the photo showing the Facebook post)​

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Victura said:

Very happy to hear that Paul seems to be on the mend, since initial rumors had seemed so uncertain. Hoping that he has a speedy and full recovery.



It's possible for one to be sedated following such an event without it being a medically induced coma, which is done for more serious events that may involve lack of oxygen to the brain and to prevent any further damage.

For what it's worth, Sergei Grinkov didn't know he had cardiac issues - in fact, G&G had both undergone extensive medical tests for the Olympics the year prior to his death and that had turned up nothing. His father had died of a heart attack but somewhere in his 50s, and it was only revealed after Sergei's death that there had been a genetic component.

When I heard about Paul, I just remembered him commenting in a documentary following Sergei's death about praying for Sergei in Lake Placid. Sending prayers and support to Paul and his family for a full recovery and that whatever issues caused this can be resolved quickly.

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Kasey at FSU said:

The "medically induced coma" could have been true-ish information. Frequently, if a person suffers an actual witnessed cardiac arrest, and is resuscitated, the physicians will institute therapeutic hypothermia protocol. As someone previously mentioned, any anoxic (lack of oxygen) period can cause swelling in the brain; hypothermia, by cooling a person to a specific set temperature and keeping them there for a certain length of time (usually 24 hours), can prevent some of this edema, and protect and prevent further damage to heart and brain. However, this is usually done only if the person is remaining neurologically unresponsive after resuscitation; and, because being cooled and treated with medical equipment such as ventilators etc is very uncomfortable, a person will be sedated into a coma-like state during these procedures. Usually however, it is a short acting sedation such as Propofol, which I don't really consider medical coma, since once it's turned off the person starts waking within a few minutes normally.

In spite of my sharing of this information, I don't have reason to believe that he was in a full cardiac arrest and had this treatment; it's just a response to the rumors of medically induced coma, and why that could have been true as well as him being remarkably and significantly better today be true as well.

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CoyoteChris said:

The really odd thing for me is that according to Wiki, his arterial opening was the size of a pinhole. Now if he had "extensive medical tests" the year before, is it possible that he could have passed a basic treadmill test and had the artery clog in a year?

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CoyoteChris said:

Thanks for the update on Sergei....that broke my heart when he left us....perhaps the person that told me that he "knew" he had issues meant that he knew about his father.....

The really odd thing for me is that according to Wiki, his arterial opening was the size of a pinhole. Now if he had "extensive medical tests" the year before, is it possible that he could have passed a basic treadmill test and had the artery clog in a year?

"On November 20, 1995 Grinkov collapsed and died from a massive heart attack in Lake Placid, New York, while he and Gordeeva were practicing for the upcoming 1995–1996 Stars on Ice tour.[1][9] Doctors found that Grinkov had severely clogged coronary arteries (to the point where his arterial opening was reportedly the size of a pinhole), which caused the heart attack; later testing revealed that he also had a genetic risk factor linked with premature heart attacks. The risk factor is called the PLA-2 variant and is also known as the "Grinkov Risk Factor".[10] Grinkov was 28 years old. His wife was 24 and their daughter was 3 years old."

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KKonas said:

A stress test alone may not have indicated that Grinkov had coronary heart disease (building of plaque in arteries), especially in a young otherwise healthy young man, and a highly trained athlete. Nowadays an angioplasty (a cardiac angiogram using a catheter inserted into a vein) can detect a blockage that is often widened with the insertion of a stent.

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