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Dolphins DT in car accident, arm amputated

Eric from BBI : Admin : 7/4/2019 11:39 am

Ian Rapoport
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1h1 hour ago

Terrible news: #Dolphins DT Kendrick Norton was in a car accident last night and doctors amputated his arm, sources say. Other details are not yet available. But he is still at the hospital.

Horrible!

NDMedics : 7/4/2019 11:40 am : link

This is just tragic.

It was his arm or his life

Shecky : 7/4/2019 11:44 am : link

So could have been MUCH MORE tragic.
Apparently they had to amputate his arm at the scene in order to remove him from the car.

Ugh!

BigBlueinDE : 7/4/2019 11:50 am : link

So sad. Glad he's alive.

Horrible.

AcidTest : 7/4/2019 12:01 pm : link

Prayers to him. God bless.

Dam - that is sad ...

short lease : 7/4/2019 1:31 pm : link

"Norton�s left arm was amputated �by paramedics AT THE SCENE for him to exit the vehicle.�

Must have been a hell of a crash if they could not remove him without an amputation. Such a young guy too ....

Get better Kendrick .... !

Jesus, Mary

ColHowPepper : 7/4/2019 1:36 pm : link

like a WWI amputation on the battlefield. Awful. Want him to recover from this physically and emotionally

WOW

Jim Bur(n)t : 7/4/2019 3:44 pm : link

That sucks

Devastating

rdt288 : 7/4/2019 4:02 pm : link

God bless

Horrible.

Bill L : 7/4/2019 4:04 pm : link

Thoughts and prayers for the young man.

He may be able to still play

NephilimGiants : 7/4/2019 5:22 pm : link

like JPP

Yeah, maybe...

Shepherdsam : 7/4/2019 5:42 pm : link

but he'll be showing up to camp underweight.

RE: Yeah, maybe...

short lease : 7/4/2019 5:57 pm : link

In comment 14491878 Shepherdsam said:

Quote:

but he'll be showing up to camp underweight.

S.O.S .... good point Shep.

Usual aholes

XBRONX : 7/4/2019 6:26 pm : link

making jokes. Speedy recovery.

Funny people on the site

Tuckrule : 7/4/2019 9:29 pm : link

Horrible and wish him luck. Hopefully he can recover mentally. That�s really where the battle begins. Good luck young man.

EMT�s amputating arm sounds way out there. hard to believe they would

plato : 7/4/2019 11:42 pm : link

do that without trauma surgeon consultation, or that they are trained to do that. it�s not a �simple� operation. need to know a lot more about exactly what happened etc.
however it sounds like an athlete who was in a terrible situation. Hopefully he�ll recover and lead as complete a life as he can.

I cannot remember a case

mrvax : 7/5/2019 8:57 am : link

where a person was amputated by paramedics. Civil War, yeah but not in the 21st century. Maybe the arm was crushed. Crush is one of the worst kind of wounds.

Field amputations are exceedingly rare, but they happen

regulator : 7/5/2019 10:15 am : link

Usually conducted by an on-call physician; most major departments have one. It would have to be a matter of immediate life-or-death, I would think, to be conducted by an EMT.

Certainly possible it was a traumatic amputation occasioned by the accident, too.

RE: I cannot remember a case

jvm52106 : 7/5/2019 1:30 pm : link

In comment 14492209 mrvax said:

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where a person was amputated by paramedics. Civil War, yeah but not in the 21st century. Maybe the arm was crushed. Crush is one of the worst kind of wounds.

Perhaps the arm didn't have a whole lot left keeping it there but to get him out would have meant tearing and shredding vs amputation..

Either way, yikes to him and to the on scene team.

They do it when someone is trapped

Sneakers O'toole : 7/5/2019 2:04 pm : link

in a wreck or in machinery. It's a last resort measure when non action will lead to the trapped person's death.

Well, that's a horrible story

Greg from LI : 7/5/2019 2:06 pm : link

But at least he's still alive at the end.

More than likely...

HoustonGiant : 7/8/2019 11:02 am : link

it was pretty much amputated, and they had to complete it.

Either way, it is really unfortunate.