Prof. G. Thiene: "Kjaer and the doctors have taken Eriksen from the antechamber of death"
After the illness accused yesterday by Eriksen, the Corriere della Sera interviewed Professor Gaetano Thiene, the expert in sudden cardiac death in athletes who performed the assessment on Astori and Puerta: "Eriksen was already at the gates of the afterlife - he declared - ventricular fibrillation is the antechamber of death. But this time the miracle happened, they saved his life, his death was a sudden abortion. It was a great success ".
According to the professor, everyone should be rewarded: "From the teammate (captain Kjaer, ed) who was quick to move his tongue to reopen the upper airways. To the doctors who gave him heart massage for several minutes because the heart could pump. And then to those who used the defibrillator. The defibrillator was a great invention, it's a lifesaver. If they used it it means that ventricular fibrillation was in progress, the boy lost consciousness, he couldn't be a banal syncope from heat or cold, had it been so he would have soon got up ".