Re:152 - the AED will not fire unless it sees heart activity or no activity for which it can fire. That is NOT to say no activity was seen, we don’t know that yet. But AEDs fire on specified heart activity or lack thereof.
As I said the odds of restarting a heart from manual CPR is I believe less than 2%, and that’s assuming it is administered properly. There is a reason AEDs are in gymnasiums and other public places.
I could be proven wrong and this was one of the time someone got the heart started strictly from manual compressions, but if you have the ability to shock the heart to try to start it vs manual compressions, you ALWAYS shock.
They have said this was cardiac arrest, that means his heart was not beating at all, completely stopped.
Defib is 90% successful in restarting a stopped heart if administered in first minute... every minute delayed drops the odds by 7-10%... I am curious how long it was between him dropping and getting shocked (assuming they did shock him). If it wasn’t almost immediately I’d want to know why
In any event, it seems that they got the AED to him quickly. Which is what one would expect, as every major sport has a couple immediately available on the field. They’re so cheap that a lot of high schools in the US have them on hand as well.
Which might lead one to wonder why teams and schools make the investment. It’s almost as if young athletes can sometimes have sudden cardiac issues that need immediate treatment.