He’s currently in Miami for treatment in the cardiac unit, suggesting that he may have suffered a heart attack.
A 911 caller said that Ross was “slobbing at the mouth” and was unresponsive, TMZ reported.
“We’re told doctors have put him on something called ECMO, or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. It’s a technique used to oxygenate his blood outside of his body, before it’s pumped back into his body,” the TMZ report stated.
ECMO is essentially a form of life support, as a machine is keeping him alive.
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Rapper Rick Ross was rushed to the hospital after being found unresponsive early Thursday morning, March 1.
Someone called 911 at 3:30 a.m. on Thursday and said that the person in distress was breathing heavily and unresponsive.
The caller said the man in distress had a history of seizures, which Ross has.
The person in distress then came to and became combative, law enforcement officials told the media outlet.
One person connected to Ross said that he may have pneumonia, although the medical issue could be heart-related.
“He told me I didn’t have high blood pressure but I was hypertensive, which is a phase under having high blood pressure. And that’s when I said right then, ‘Yo, what’s my biggest enemy?’”
“‘Right now, for you, based on everything you wrote down: sodas,’” the doctor said.
Ross said he would never drink another soda in his life. He’s been drinking fresh juices ever since, according to him.
He said he'd gotten a lot healthier since, and lost a lot of weight.
“Before, you would have had to wait an hour for me to just catch my breath, calm down. It’s a big difference,” Ross said.
“And I guess that’s what I was doing it for. I wasn’t doing it for chasing a specific number or no [expletive] like that. It was just trying to live better—live as healthy as I could.”
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