A Pearl City J.V. football player collapsed during practice today, but thanks to a fast acting trainer he was able to be revived.
The team’s coach says a 9th-grade offensive tackle, was doing hitting drills head-to-head with another player when he suddenly collapsed.
A trainer at the practice ran to grab an automated external defibrillator or AED.
“Once we realized he stopped breathing, the trainer was right there right by the hill so his quick response actually helped save him,” said J.V. headcoach Jerry Arrayan.
“We hooked him up and he started coming around but i still had to do some CPR and eventually the pulse came back,” said athelectic heath care trainer Colin Lee.
The player was taken to the hospital in serious condition.
Chris Campbell, 17, crumpled to the ground shortly after a group of Bedford athletes started stretching at the school just after 7 p.m. Tuesday.
“It was a voluntary pre-conditioning workout for all athletes,” said Mark German, who has been recommended to replace the retired Bill Regnier as Bedford’s athletic director. “They were just stretching when he collapsed. I understand that he wasn’t feeling well going into the workout.”
“I looked back and he just had collapsed. He was laying on the ground and he started to have a seizure,” his cousin Daniel Campbell, Jr. said.
Football coaches Lou Nickle and John Groll began administering cardiopulmonary resuscitation immediately.
“Lou and John were just fantastic,” Bedford head coach Jeff Wood said. “Without those two jumping right on and doing CPR, he would be in far worse shape.
“They did everything right. They are great men. The jumped right in without even thinking.”
Monroe County Sheriff’s Deputy Jeremy Lestock was patrolling just a half-mile away from the high school when the call came in. He was in the scene in minutes.
Deputy Lestock retrieved an automated external defibrillator from his cruiser and used it on Campbell.
“He was down and not breathing,” Lestock said. “Luckily, we were right around the corner. That’s probably what saved him.
“Two coaches were already doing CPR. I got out my AED just like we are trained and hooked it up like I have numerous times before and shocked him.”
The Bedford Fire Department and Monroe Community Ambulance arrived moments later. the time Campbell was loaded into an ambulance, he was breathing on his own.
Lestock, who has been a Monroe County Sheriff’s Deputy for 15 years, was impressed with the way that the coaches, firemen and paramedics handled the situation.
“It went as smooth as smooth can be for a scenario like that,” he said. “The way that everyone reacted is why he is still alive.”
Wood, who said about 100 athletes were doing the conditioning workout when Campbell collapsed, was equally impressed.
“There wasn’t any panic,” he said. “Coach (Jeff) Potter and my dad (LeRoy Wood) took care of the other kids while Lou, John and I helped Chris.”
Toledo Hospital reported Tuesday night that Campbell was in stable condition breathing on his own but in the intensive care in an induced coma.
Monroe County Sheriff’s deputies have carried AEDs in their cars for the past five or six years. Lestock was glad he had one Tuesday night.
“They’re expensive, but they are worth it if they save one person’s life,” he said. “I’ll tell you what, you get on that high with what you just accomplished in a situation like that. Then you have to step back and collect yourself and get that next call.”
The players panicked as they surrounded an unconscious Jonathan Moore on the football field outside Pearland’s Glenda Dawson High School on March 3.
Jonathan Moore the Survivor
A minute before, the 16-year-old had been running with his teammates prepping for football practice. But Jonathan, a husky fullback and defensive tackle, suddenly collapsed.
His heart had stopped beating. He had no pulse.
Team trainers Matt Thomas and Chris Shaddock hurried to Jonathan’s side and began CPR.
Thomas grabbed the school’s automatic external defibrillator and used it on Moore to restart his heart.
It started beating again and paramedics rushed the teen to Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston.
“I was sure he was dead,” Shaddock said.
Jonathan barely remembers anything from the day he collapsed. Someone told him he was doing a good job, but a few days later he found himself lying in a hospital bed, scared and confused.
Jonathan said, “Collapsed, passed out, actually died and Shadack and other trainers brought me back.”
“l’m very grateful for Pearland ISD, the trainers and all the doctors here,” said Jonathan’s mother Vanessa Williams.
Thomas and Shaddock said they weren’t really heroes. They were just doing what they were trained to.
“It was a team effort,” Shaddock said.
Cardiologists at Children’s Memorial Hermann implanted an internal defibrillator to regulate Jonathan’s heartbeat.
Mark Pie-Truckies, an Edmonton soccer dad is recovering in hospital after some quick-thinking parents came to his aid with life-saving equipment after he had a heart attack.
The man was taking part in a soccer game that pitted parents against kids at the West End Soccer Centre when he collapsed on the field after suffering a heart attack.
Some of the parents taking part grabbed a portable defibrillator and performed CPR.
“I had just finished my CPR training, a refresher course, about a month ago, so I just remembered what I was supposed to do – attached the machine and let the machine walk me through it,” said parent Karen Gwozd-Cornish.
Paramedics are crediting Gwozd-Cornish and others for their swift action, they say the man was already breathing on his own and was conscious by the time they arrived.
The man is still in hospital undergoing several tests, but his family says he is expected to make a full recovery.
Hunter Cairns plays high school baseball in Los Alamitos.
Hunter Cairns the Survivor
Last July, Cairns was at bat and attempting to bunt, but the pitch came in low and fast, smacking him hard in the chest.
Cairns’ grandfather, Jack Lee, retired from the Long Beach Fire Department, his grandfather’s friend, Steve Roberts, an active duty fireman with the LBFD, and his dad, Jason, were watching from the third base line and knew it was a wallop.
Cairns ran about 50 feet toward first base and collapsed face down in the dirt.
When the first base coach turned Cairns onto his back, he took one look at Cairns’ face and shouted for someone to call 911.
Lee and Roberts rushed to Cairns. They ripped open his shirt to look for broken ribs, but saw none. Lee started chest compressions while Roberts performed rescue breaths.
When paramedics arrived, they told the men to continue performing CPR while they began defibrillation.
After the first shock, Cairns started breathing on his own. He was taken to a hospital, where he regained consciousness 17 hours later.
On Jan. 16, David Feinstein was walking out of Southwest Rec Center on the UF campus in Gainesville when he heard cries for help.
Cook, a building construction professor who has done consulting work for Pulte Homes in Volusia County, had suffered a heart attack.
He had been playing racquetball with one of his students, 24-year-old Brando Fetzek, and a couple other friends when he told them he felt winded, needed to take a break, and would catch them on the next game.
“We finished the game in about five minutes, and as I walked out I saw him laying there,” said Fetzek, a Bradenton resident. “I called out for somebody to call an ambulance and that’s when David and his buddy came running over. David started to perform CPR.”
Several other students joined in, calling 911, alerting Southwest Rec staff to the emergency and helping with the CPR.
They set up a nearby AED — automated external defibrillator — which is used to shock a non-beating heart into starting again.
“We put it on him and we shocked him and we got a pulse, but it wasn’t a very strong one,” Feinstein said. “He took a big gasp of air, but then he wasn’t breathing on his own, so we kept doing CPR.”
Paramedics transported Cook to the hospital where he stayed for five days. Since then, he has made a full recovery and has even returned to the classroom.
But it wouldn’t have happened without prompt action by the students. Reached by e-mail, Cook expressed appreciation for the help he received.
“I owe my life to Brando and David and three other students (Joey Murvis, Karina Reyner and Josh Rubin) who administered CPR and AED. I will be forever grateful to them,” Cook wrote.
Meanwhile, Feinstein’s parents, Larry and Candace of Ormond Beach, are understandably proud because for all his good grades and ambition, his latest accomplishment put everything in a new perspective.
“You want your kids to go out and do good. You couldn’t ask for anything better,” his mother said.
Faith Sendelweck would just like to get back to a normal routine.
She goes back to Jasper Middle School on Monday; however, this once high-energy soccer player is forced to take it a little easier from now on.
Sendelweck says she does not remember much of what happened one Sunday earlier this month.
“All I remember is diving for a ball and throwing it back,” Sendelweck said. “That’s pretty much it.”
She was playing soccer in the gym of Jasper High School.
Sendelweck’s dad was with her and he remembers seeing her collapse into a curtain hanging from the gym ceiling.
Dr. Dean Beckman just happened to be playing basketball with his son there, too, and immediately ran to help.
“(She was) becoming a little bit lethargic, sat down, became unconscious and then lost her pulse,” Dr. Beckman said. “We started CPR.”
Turns out, Sendelweck had a congenital heart condition that no one knew about.
“The rhythm is messed up,” Sendelweck said. “You have a short bump and then a big bump and then another short bump. My short bump drags on too long before my next heart beat and messes it up.”
Sendelweck might not be here had it not been for a defibrillator in the gym.
“You could tell she was starting to respond because her color came back, her lips turned pink and she was moaning,” Dr. Beckman said.
Sendelweck now has her own defibrillator, an IED, implanted in her chest.
Sendelweck is going to be a spokesperson for pediatric IED’s at Kosair’s Children’s Hospital.
Emergency medical workers were called to Alumni Soccer Field at Davidson College Saturday afternoon around 2:30 p.m. after a report that a youth-soccer official had collapsed during a game.
Davidson Fire Chief Jeff Almond said the man apparently had a heart attack and was not breathing.
As emergency personnel arrived, a doctor and a nurse who were attending the game were performing CPR on the man.
Emergency workers took over, continuing CPR.
They administered a shock using an automated defibrillator, and his heart returned to a normal rhythm, the chief said.
The man was taken by ambulance to Presbyterian Hospital in Huntersville, where he was treated briefly. He was then taken on to Presbyterian Hospital’s main location in Charlotte for further treatment.
Beyond that, his condition was not known late Saturday afternoon.
Dan Caplis, Denver lawyer best known as a conservative talk-show host and Ches Thompson, a 48-year-old ob/gyn, hadn’t actually met while they and about five other dads were playing football with their kids on the sunny Thanksgiving afternoon.
Thompson suddenly lurched forward and fell on his face.
Dr. Scott Bainbridge, a spine specialist also playing in the game, rolled Thompson onto his back, checked his signs and started CPR in the muddy field.
Dan Caplis the Saviour
Caplis, meantime, bolted to his SUV. By the time he returned with his defibrillator, Thompson was flatlining.
“Stay calm. Follow these voice instructions. Make sure 911 is called now. Begin by exposing patient’s bare chest and torso,” began the recorded voice in the machine.
Caplis followed the cues, placed the pads on Thompson’s chest and stood back as the AED shocked him with power Caplis describes as “ferocious.”
“Waiting to see if he would react, those were the longest seconds of my life,” he says.
Before Caplis and Bainbridge attached the AED to Thompson, he wasn’t breathing and didn’t have a pulse. According to Cherry Hills Village Police it took only one shock from the AED to resuscitate Dr. Thompson.
Thompson regained consciousness quickly and strongly. The father of two boys is expected to make a full recovery at Swedish Medical Center for treatment. .
“I was in the right place at the right time with the right people,” he said Monday.
“It would have felt so incredibly helpless to have been there without the machine,” adds Caplis, co-host of KHOW’s Caplis and Craig Silverman show. He’s had the defibrillator for a year and a half because of another of his jobs, as a little league baseball coach.
“You can know nothing about CPR or AEDs and they can still save somone. They’re that good,” he said.
