Dance Dance Revolution Hastens Heart Attack

Thanks to TheOmahaChannel.com for its story discussing a 15-year old girl whose heart stopped while playing arcade Dance Dance Revolution. According to the piece: "[Kimber] Wilson was playing the game Dance Dance Revolution at a Bellevue arcade with a friend June 22 when she fell to the floor. The arcade owners gave her CPR, then a police officer took over. Paramedics shocked her several times with a defibrillator at the arcade to get her heart working again." The diagnosis was "hypertrophy cardiomyopathy", a genetic problem (which could have been triggered by any exercise) in which "the walls around her heart are so thick that her heart wasn't getting the signals to beat." Fortunately, Kimber was "soon... back to hanging out with her friends at the arcade", albeit with a pacemaker, commenting: "I might try Dance Dance Revolution, but I'm thinking no."

Comments

Good for her!

[Idealius]

I'm tired of north american girls taking such little interest in games.

The fact that she played so much it almost KILLED her counterintuitively brings a smile to my face..

Another win for the virtual world. At least she's not puking her guts out like so many other 15+ year old girls >_>

The other good news from this article is that due to this accident they were able to discover her medical condition fairly early.

We should send her a console with some good girl games to show her we care ^_^

Re:Good for her!

[nacturation]

Another win for the virtual world. At least she's not puking her guts out like so many other 15+ year old girls.

One look at the picture in the article suggests that she's not bulimic. Or, if she is, she's not very good at it.

I hate Dance Dance.

[Anonymous Coward]

This is one time that I hope the Lieberman's of the world unite to ban the Dance Dance menace. I am tired of going to the arcade at the mall and beating the high score on the Galaga machine only to see all of the teenage girls are giggling over the skinny Asian kid jumping up and down to bad techno music. Yeah, I am at least 10 years older than the girls but Galaga players want some jail bait attention too.

DDR =

[k4rm4_p0l7c3]

Defribrilator Defribrilator Resuscitation

Re:GROSSLY misleading

[balthan]

the procedure is slightly more refined than "lobbing off half the heart and stiching the rest back up"

Yeah, if you read the link, he only lobs off a chunk, not half.

When Video Games Attack!

[servognome]

Video games should only be played by true professionals, there is just such a high level of danger involved.
Just look at this list of injuries:
dizziness, altered vision, muscle twitches, loss of awareness, disorientation, motion sickness, Eye Strain, Back Injury, Photosensitive Seizures, hand-arm vibration syndrome, blisters, friction burns, lacerations, carpal-tunnel, "Nintendo Thumb", bruises, electric shock, the many horrors of DDR, and now heart attacks.
In the wrong hands video game consoles, and computers running video games are death machines!

Cardiac Beta-myosin heavy chain mutation =My tatoo

[spineboy]

Just for thoses interested one of the causes of HCM (Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy) is from mutations in the Beta cardiac myosin heavy chain. While I was at the National Institues of Health (NIH) about 15 years ago, I helped discover several different point mutations (single substitutions) in DNA which caused this disease.

Hypertrophic = enlarged, cardiac=heart and myopathy = muscle disease

Anyway, I went and got a tatoo of the DNA section with the mutation in it. It was quite the interesting education gauge. I got double takes from people eduated in science, and "Hey dude! cool roller coaster thingy tatoo!" from the less educated, which then led in turn to "Hey, what's your phone number!"

Meanwhile...

[Bob Cat - NYMPHS]

I am in perfect health as a result of sitting on my fat ass, drinking beer, eating Cheetos, and reading Slashdot.

No seriously, I'm doing that right +++ATH @#*&@*#$ NO HEARTBEAT

Re:Talk about a misleading headline

[Ianoo]

Could the Writers try to be a little less inflammatory in the future?

You must be new here.

Re:This posting is a troll and extremely misleadin

[hambonewilkins]

"You could be asleep, walking, running, sitting down to eat. It can hit ya," said Eddie Wilson, Kimber's father.

Good post. Unfortunately, I read it as "You could be asleep, walking, running, sitting down to eat. I can hit ya", implying that the causes of the attack could be sleep, walking, running, sitting or a punch from your father. It makes sense both ways, I guess.