Thursday 17th June 2021
After cardiac arrest in EM game
Eriksen gets a defibrillator implanted
Christian Eriksen agrees and the doctors recommend it: A small defibrillator should save the Danish international player’s life in the event of cardiac arrhythmias. The device is used by the 29-year-old after his collapse in the European Championship game against Finland.
The Danish soccer star Christian Eriksen got an ICD defibrillator inserted a few days after his collapse during the European Championship game against Finland. The Danish association announced. This small device, similar to a cardiac pacemaker, is implanted in people who are at increased risk of abnormal heart rhythms.
“Christian had various heart examinations. Then it was decided that he should get an ICD. This decision is necessary after cardiac arrhythmias have triggered a heart attack in him,” the Danish team doctor Morten Boesen is quoted in the association’s statement.
In the past few days, Boesen was in regular contact with the heart specialists at the treating hospital in Copenhagen. The use of a so-called ICD was unanimously proposed as a treatment method by national and international experts.
Eriksen himself has already agreed to this treatment, said the Danish association. The use of an ICD defibrillator does not automatically mean that the 29-year-old has to end his professional career with it. The Dutch international Daley Blind and the German pole vaulter Katharina Bauer continue to do competitive sports.
Eriksen collapsed on the field last Saturday during the Danes’ first European Championship game against Finland (0-1) and had to be revived. He has been in hospital since that evening and, according to the Danish Association, his condition is “stable and good”. But it is still too early to leave the hospital or even watch a European Championship game in the stadium.
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