Well I'm far less knowledgeable than you in this area but I know a guy who has somewhat frequent seizures and a girl who faints a lot and for the both of them it's very discreet, they can feel it coming but if they're sitting on a chair or a bed someone in another room wouldn't notice. During a final I noticed the girl was drifting to unconsciousness because I was thinking about something and picked on her weird breathing pattern, I caught her before she touched the ground and none of the students or the 3 teachers watching us had noticed anything before I called for help.
My point is, the technological advancement is not automatically at fault here.
But the fellow gamer is really a hero.
I believe that 100%. People call 911 all the time for someone they see online that they think needs help, often they're afraid they're in danger of harming themselves.
Better to have sent help and if everyone is okay that's fantastic and you can clear the resources back up. As long as the request for help was in good faith, as in the person asking for help really did think that someone might be in life-threatening danger, it's always better to send the help!
Twas in my home city, Liverpool
His gamer mate was in Texas
My point is, the technological advancement is not automatically at fault here.
But the fellow gamer is really a hero.