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>> yeah. >> what's the status for him? >> when someone's heart function is not adequate, there's a couple of things that you need to do. one is that you use medicines to try to improve the heart function. that improves the amount of blood that is circulating throughout the body. but at the same time, you can sort of decrease the demand that the body has on the heart. you sort of -- you can do that by sedation. and the sedation would then require someone then be on a breathing machine. they may use something on hypothermia, something you and i have talked about. when you cool the body, you're l...

Over more and more activity requiring fewer medications? is it becoming easier to actually ventilate, use the breathing machine without having to use higher settings to have him prone? those are the sorts of things you're sort of looking for. are his vital signs stabilizing? but, again, the -- it can be a long ride, and it can be a rocky ride from day to day. so, you might hear improvements one day, a little bit of a step backwards the next day. and also, anderson, as he wakes up, one of the things they're going to really want to see is has there been an impact on other organs in his body, inc...

There are two options here. you have to try and increase the function of the heart. you give medicine to try to do that, which i am sure they are doing. the other thing you can do and it's probably happening is you can decrease the demand of the body for the oxygenated blood. you want to improve the amount of circulation. in the interim, you decrease the demand by stating somebody and keeping them on a breathing machine. sometimes they will even use cooling agents. hypothermia, it is called. basically, almost put the body in more of a hibernation like state so it is not demanding as much oxyge...

Wake up, they have normal consciousness, then perhaps not. but in this case, it sounds like he is still having a significant amount of cardiac dysfunction. his heart is simply not pumping enough blood. so there is two options here. you want to try and increase the function of the heart, and you can give medicines to try and do that, which i'm sure they're doing. the other thing is you can decrease the demand of the body for the oxygenated blood. you want to improve the amount of circulation. in the interim, you can indecrease the demand by sedating somebody, by keeping them on a breathing mach...

Treatment. >> todd: bringing in dr. nicole saphier, what is your update? >> dr. saphier: i remain caut cautiously optimistic, he suffered severe attack on this football field, cardiac arrest, which is seization of the heart ability to be able to pump, lost electricity to the heart. they restored that heartbeat on the field, he had to be resuscitated while in the hospital. he is on a breathing machine to decrease the body's demand for the heart to pump. he is placed face down to get fluid off the lung. when the heart stops breathing, fluid backs up into lungs and blood is not able to go to the