CPR AED | Cardiologist helps save boy who collapsed on basketball court

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CPR AED Cardiologist helps save boy who
collapsed on basketball court
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or years, New Hampshire cardiologist Jon
Wahrenberger has pushed for two guidelines that
would help save lives in an emergency teaching
CPR in schools and equipping public facilities
with AEDs, a machine to shock a stopped heart
back into action. Then he took his son to a
basketball tournament and got a close-up lesson
in how vital those factors are. On the last
weekend in May, Wahrenberger was one of several
people who teamed up to save a 14-year-old boy
who collapsed on the court during a game. If
this had happened in his backyard playing a
pickup game, the doctor said, the overwhelming
likelihood is he would have died. Luckily for
the young player, the RIM Sports Complex in
Hampton, New Hampshire, a coastal town about 50
miles north of Boston, was prepared.
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Just a few minutes into the early-morning
contest, the boy, whose name was not made public,
was handling the ball when he fell backward and
was suddenly lifeless. Among the spectators were
Wahrenberger and Peter Begin, whose sons played
for the other team. Wahrenberger and the boys
coach rushed onto the court. Begin, a police
officer in Lebanon, New Hampshire, and director
of security for a bank there, cleared the players
and fans from the gym. I dont think they really
knew how bad it was, Begin said. Most times you
see somebody collapse on the court its because
theyre dehydrated, or have low blood sugar or
concussion symptoms. The rescuers quickly
knew. We found him to be unresponsive and
pulseless, said Wahrenberger, explaining that
protocol in such instances is to start CPR, call
911 and locate an automated external
defibrillator, or AED.
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The doctor began chest compressions and the
coach started mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, and
another parent ran up with the AED on hand at the
sports complex, said Wahrenberger, a longtime
volunteer AHA advocate for legislation mandating
CPR training in schools. This is something that
every kid should learn as a life skill, said the
cardiologist, who is on the staff at
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in
Lebanon. Begin quickly placed the electrode pads
on the boys chest to analyze his heart rhythm
and recommend the proper response. Sometime it
will advise you to just continue treatment, he
said. But it quickly told me to shock him. I
told everybody hands off and we shocked
him. Five seconds later they had a pulse. In
short order he was talking and grumbling as the
emergency crew arrived to take him to a nearby
hospital. He was subsequently transferred to
Boston Childrens Hospital, where he recovered.
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I understand that he called the coach to see if
he could come back to the tournament, Begin
said. Wahrenberger did not follow the case, but
speculated that the boy had an underlying
congenital heart issue that led to his heart
rhythm problem and cardiac arrest. That made both
CPR and the AED crucial. The fact that CPR was
started immediately and there was an AED on the
scene in a minute or two were big factors, he
said. If this had been someplace where they
didnt have an AED, he might have been
resuscitated but he might have been
brain-damaged. The combination, the
cardiologist said, was an amazing event. Im
around this kind of stuff all the time and you
see a coordinated effort among professionals who
are used to doing this, Wahrenberger said. What
I saw was a coordinated effort among a bunch of
strangers who came together and did everything
just right, in a facility where the owner had an
AED. Thats the message of the American Heart
Association exactly how it should be.
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According to the Valley News, which covers
communities along the New Hampshire-Vermont
border, the RIM Sports Complex bought an AED when
it opened in 2013 and used it once before, a year
and a half ago. We should probably put a couple
of stars on it, owner Peter Maher told the
newspaper. It has saved a couple of peoples
lives. Learn more about CPR AED. Bergenfield,
NJ, Jersey City, NJ, Livingston, NJ, and Queens,
New York and Gainesville, FL. Source
https//newsarchive.heart.org
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