Christian Eriksen, who suffered a cardiac arrest during Denmark’s Euro 2020 game Saturday, will undergo a procedure in which an implantable cardioverter defibrillator — what his doctor called a heart starter — is placed in his heart because of “rhythm disturbances.”
Morton Boesen, the national team physician who was part of the medical team that quickly resuscitated Eriksen on the pitch just before halftime of the game against Finland, made the announcement through the Danish Football Union, saying the determination had been made by “specialists nationally and internationally” as well as doctors at Copenhagen’s Rigshospitalet, where Eriksen was been since the incident occurred.