Michael Jackson Reportedly Suffers Cardiac Arrest!
TMZ is reporting that Michael Jackson has been rushed to the hospital after suffering a cardiac arrest here in SoCal a little over an hour ago!
We’ve just learned Michael Jackson was taken by ambulance to a hospital in Los Angeles … and we’re told it was cardiac arrest and that paramedics administered CPR in the ambulance. He was picked up at his home around 20 minutes ago — we’re told his mother is on the way to visit him. The 911 call came in at 12:21PM at his Holmby Hills home in L.A.
Whoa!! Now, it should be clarified that just because he suffered cardiac arrest that doesn’t necessarily mean that his life is in danger. What it does mean, unfortch, that his upcoming string of 50 concert dates at the O2 Arena in London, England is in dire jeopardy. Jacko is scheduled to kick off his This Is It Tour on July 13 (less than a month away). Thus far, this report from TMZ is all the news we have on MJ’s condition. Here’s hoping that his condition is not serious and that he will be back on his feet again soon.
UPDATE: Oh no! TMZ has added new information from MJ’s family, none of it good news:
A Jackson family member tells TMZ Michael is in “really bad shape” and the brothers are headed to UCLA … We just got off the phone with Joe Jackson, Michael’s dad, who says “he is not doing well.”
Now I’m starting to get worried … let’s send our love and prayers for Michael Jackson’s speedy recovery!
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June 25th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
oh lord………..it is wrong that my second thought after oh god I hope he’s going to be ok. Is that I hope everyone who bought tixs to his concert is going to get there money back?
June 25th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Ok, I know this sounds really horrible — BUT, my thought was “uh, oh, could this be death #3!” It always happens in 3s. Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett and ____________. Bad, I know.
June 25th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
It is true it really makes you think about the ppl whom put out the skins to see him in concert!!!
Hopefully he will be fine on moon dancing his way out of the hospital real soon!!
June 25th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
LisaMarie…..He would have been #4……David Carradine was #1…Lets hope MJ is all good…..
June 25th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
TMZ UPDATE: A Jackson family member tells TMZ Michael is in “really bad shape” and the brothers are headed to UCLA.
Eeessshhh..This is crazy..I hope he recovers!!
June 25th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
If they did CPR in the ambulance that must be bad news!! I hope he is okay. That is horrible.
June 25th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
I got a tweet from CNN. Not breathing when ambulance arrived. Hope he is good.
June 25th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
@LisaMarie- I was thinking the SAME thing!
June 25th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
@LisaMarie: I thought the same thing!
@poopysmom: I recall it being in close succession, within a couple of days
Either way, I hope MJ will be ok.
June 25th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
I hope he pulls through this.
I don’t think doing the tour is a good thing for him, he clearly very ill.
June 25th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Wow, what a day. I hope Michael pulls through.
June 25th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Wow, his heart couldn’t beat it. Are you serious Trent, you think this is a joke?
June 25th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
I read that he went in to cardiac arrest, which is different than a heart attack (myocardial infarction). He apparently was not breathing and received CPR en route to the hospital. Could be pretty bad depending on how long it took for the EMT’s to get to him.
June 25th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Um.. too late.
He died.
June 25th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Who says he’s dead?
June 25th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
Scarlet,
Don’t joke around like that. It’s not funny!
June 25th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
Steve,
obviously it wasn’t a joke.
I was uh.. dead serious. To say the least.
June 25th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
Sadly – Scarlet is not joking. Many reports coming out now – he is really dead. Unbelievable. RIP Michael.
June 25th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
TMZ is reporting he has died….. no words right now…
June 25th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
sorry to fans of his, he has died. It was reported on my local news. He was taken to a hospital at about 12:30pm and wasn’t revived.
June 25th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
“Now, it should be clarified that just because he suffered cardiac arrest that doesn’t necessarily mean that his life is in danger”
Seriously?? Trent, you crack me up. I LOVE your blog, but you should not make comments on medical stuff. Cardiac arrest means they were coding him (doing CPR, etc) because he didn’t have a heart beat. No heart beat surely puts someone’s life in danger.
June 25th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
@CNRA
I was just going to say that. Unless you have a defibrillator immediately on hand (1-6 minutes in cardiac arrest before a defibrillator gives you a 35% chance of living. 10 or more minutes = certain death), cardiac arrest is most certainly a death sentence. Cardiac arrest is not the same thing as a heart attack although a heart attack can lead to cardiac arrest.
June 25th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
“Now, it should be clarified that just because he suffered cardiac arrest that doesn’t necessarily mean that his life is in danger”
CNRA, you took the words off my finger tips. If a bystander starts CPR, you have the chance of them overreacting and jumping the gun. If Paramedics are doing CPR, your life *is* in danger.
Felicity, unfortunately, if he was asystole or in PEA, even an AED wouldn’t do any good.
Sorry to turn this into an emergency medical blog! :O)
We’ll all miss Michael.
June 25th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
I agree with TraumaQueen and Felicity.. being an ER Registered Nurse, I had to laugh when I read “Now, it should be clarified that just because he suffered cardiac arrest that doesn’t necessarily mean that his life is in danger”… Uhhh… when you’re in cardiac arrest, that’s pretty damn crappy with almost always dismal results. He probably had an anterior MI (heart attack) or what we healthcare workers like to call the “widow maker”. Poor guy… he was only 50. I wonder what will happen to his kids.
June 25th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
@ernurseheaven
I’m not even trained and I read that and I knew that cardiac arrest is damn close to death.
The difference between a heart attack and cardiac arrest is major.
Heart attack – a sudden stop of hearts functions typically due to blockages of some sort… That said that can lead to…
Cardiac arrest – the total stopping of the hearts function. Which if not resuscitated within four to six minutes afterwards means the victim is pretty much not going to make it.
Jackson was in Cardiac Arrest, and I’m fairly confident (sadly) that he was already in heaven before he even got placed in the ambulance.
June 26th, 2009 at 1:13 am
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June 27th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
Glad to see u removed that tasteless tag line.