Posted on 01/12/2023 2:29:04 PM PST by nickcarraway
Jordan Brister, a senior at Amplus Academy in Las Vegas, was found unresponsive after suffering cardiac arrest for unexplained reasons, his family said.
A family is grieving the loss of a high school senior after he suffered cardiac arrest and was found unresponsive in the school bathroom, they say.
Jordan Brister, 18, died Sunday, Jan. 8, after suffering a cardiac arrest on Jan. 3 during the school day at Amplus Academy in Las Vegas, according to a statement by the school shared by NBC affiliate KSNV. He was found unresponsive in the school bathroom after attending gym class, his family told KSNV.
By the time he was found, there was nothing emergency personnel could do to save him, according to his family. The public charter school said in its statement that its staff provided Brister with “emergency medical attention” until paramedics arrived.
The Clark County Coroner’s Office said the exact cause of Brister’s death is still under investigation, according to KSNV.
Lacie Cowley, a friend of Brister's family who set up a GoFundMe page to help with funeral expenses, wrote that Brister "suddenly and unexpectedly suffered cardiac arrest while at school with no explanation as to why."
"Words cannot express what the Brister family is going through and there will never be enough answers as to why this has happened," she continued. "He was an amazing kid who loved life to the fullest."
Brister had plans of joining the military after graduating high school, according to Cowley.
The school also sent its condolences to Brister's family in announcing his death on Facebook on Jan. 9.
Brister's cardiac arrest happened in the same week as the death of another Las Vegas high school student. Ashari Hughes, 16, died after suffering "a medical episode" following a flag football game at Desert Oasis High School on Jan. 5, according to The Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Sudden cardiac arrest is the leading cause of death in high-school athletes, according to Dr. Adam Kean at Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis. Last year, Kean treated high school tennis player Drew Strasser, who suffered cardiac arrest at practice and was saved when his teammate gave him CPR and his coach ran to get an automated external defibrillator (AED) to jolt his heart.
“Even though it is the No. 1 cause, it is remarkably rare, which is important,” Kean told TODAY in October. “We estimate that one in 30,000 children die of cardiac arrest each year, and that sounds incredibly small. But that’s still around 2,000 children in the United States each year.”
While coronary artery disease is usually the culprit in causing sudden cardiac arrest in adults, in some children and teens, it may be caused by heart conditions such as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, long QT syndrome or catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia.
The deaths of both teens also came after Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin, 24, collapsed and suffered cardiac arrest on the field following a tackle in a game against the Bengals on Jan. 2. Hamlin was given CPR on the field and taken to a local Cincinnati hospital, where he stayed until his condition improved enough to be transferred to a Buffalo hospital on Jan. 9.
Hamlin's ordeal has brought renewed spotlight to the importance of learning CPR, which includes these seven steps listed by the American Red Cross.
We can only take so much normalcy. This is all so very normal.
Another one? Good grief. Is there a list of those who have died young?
Look heart attacks have always been a problem with the young and healthy. It has nothing to do with what the authorities want you not to realize it is.
of the 2000 how many pre-2018 typically have a congenital defect, known or unknown?
Has there been a shift?
And why are autopsies pertaining to the issue apparently being sealed for two years in some areas?
It’s getting to seem like 18 is the new 78…
“Even though it is the No. 1 cause, it is remarkably rare, which is important,” Kean told TODAY
He makes it sound like cardiac arrest has always been the number one cause of death for young adults and that nothing has changed. That’s not the case.
Hyperviscosity syndrome in COVID-19 and related vaccines: exploring of uncertainties
And get a load if this bit...
...Besides, HVS may develop in vaccine recipients with previous COVID-19 due to higher underlying Ig concentrations and rarely without previous COVID-19...
Already had the coof? Get vaxxed anyway.
That is what everyone I have asked has been told by their healthcare professionals. I was told that, too. Only in my case I refused.
Happens all the time.....
The new normal of adult sudden death. One does not have to be on one side of the issue or the other to critically think that something is terribly wrong. Rest assured, Fedgov will get to the bottom of the crisis.
“Is there a list of those who have died young?”
Not that I know of, but there are numbers put out by the CDC. And the singled out ones and twos we are seeing is nothing.
Each year from 1999 to 2006, the annual death rate for teenagers has averaged 49.5 deaths per 100,000 population. Here’s an interesting site on youth deaths:
Kids die. Less than adults, but it still happens. I am hoping the immediate response to a youth death doesn’t automatically point fingers at vaccines. And it appears that’s what the current trend is. And it is being used to push an agenda concerning the vaccines. So not every death of a youth has to do with covid. Ask the kids is Chicago that are dying from drive bys?
wy69
These mfers have committed crimes against humanity!
Family should ask for autopsy.
I got nothing.
Except: Lisa Marie Preseley has heart attack at home, heart stopped, restarted by medics who reported to scene, taken to hospital, condition unknown.
She’s not young, obviously.
Died Suddenly is being left out of the headlines now.
This is from a while ago - from America’s Frontline Doctors. The video shows the headlines. Obviously I did not confirm if everyone is true, and the details.
https://www.frontline.news/post/watch-1000-athletes-collapsing
Probably 20% of my class died of cardiac problems during High School. /not
because no high school students shoots up in the bathroom? We have no idea what happened and there are many possibilities
Gee-zus what is going on? It’s happening multiple times a day.
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