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High school senior dies of cardiac arrest after being found unresponsive in bathroom after gym class
Today ^ | Jan. 11, 2023, | Scott Stump

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.


TOPICS: Education; Health/Medicine; Local News
KEYWORDS: arrest; cardiac; cardiacarrest; diedsuddenly; mrna; sudden; suddenly; suddenlydied; suddenlydies; suddenlydisease; suds; unexpected; unexpectedly; unexplained
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1 posted on 01/12/2023 2:29:04 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

We can only take so much normalcy. This is all so very normal.


2 posted on 01/12/2023 2:30:00 PM PST by cdcdawg (Hoes mad! LOL! )
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To: nickcarraway

Another one? Good grief. Is there a list of those who have died young?


3 posted on 01/12/2023 2:30:05 PM PST by peggybac (My will is what I wanted. God's will is what I got.)
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To: nickcarraway

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.


4 posted on 01/12/2023 2:31:18 PM PST by AndyTheBear
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To: nickcarraway

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?


5 posted on 01/12/2023 2:34:42 PM PST by Hieronymus
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To: nickcarraway

It’s getting to seem like 18 is the new 78…


6 posted on 01/12/2023 2:35:16 PM PST by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: nickcarraway

“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.


7 posted on 01/12/2023 2:37:44 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: nickcarraway; ransomnote; Jane Long; DoodleBob
Well, isn't this just lovely. From 2022...

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.

8 posted on 01/12/2023 2:39:44 PM PST by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: nickcarraway

Happens all the time.....


9 posted on 01/12/2023 2:40:47 PM PST by Tench_Coxe
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To: nickcarraway
Fearmonger! Why, kids were croaking daily from bad tickers just like this before 2019 and no one made anything of it then. /s
10 posted on 01/12/2023 2:41:27 PM PST by mikey_hates_everything
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To: nickcarraway

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.


11 posted on 01/12/2023 2:42:37 PM PST by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: peggybac

“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:

https://www.heart.org/-/media/PHD-Files-2/Science-News/2/2022-Heart-and-Stroke-Stat-Update/2022-Stat-Update-factsheet-Children-and-CVD.pdf

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


12 posted on 01/12/2023 2:50:06 PM PST by whitney69
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These mfers have committed crimes against humanity!


13 posted on 01/12/2023 2:50:31 PM PST by imabadboy99
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To: nickcarraway

Family should ask for autopsy.


14 posted on 01/12/2023 2:53:23 PM PST by .30Carbine
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To: nickcarraway

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.


15 posted on 01/12/2023 2:55:53 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself.)
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To: nickcarraway

Died Suddenly is being left out of the headlines now.


16 posted on 01/12/2023 3:05:30 PM PST by Revel
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To: peggybac

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


17 posted on 01/12/2023 3:11:19 PM PST by week 71
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Probably 20% of my class died of cardiac problems during High School. /not


18 posted on 01/12/2023 3:41:55 PM PST by Rio
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To: AndyTheBear

because no high school students shoots up in the bathroom? We have no idea what happened and there are many possibilities


19 posted on 01/12/2023 3:44:28 PM PST by Mom MD ( )
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To: nickcarraway

Gee-zus what is going on? It’s happening multiple times a day.


20 posted on 01/12/2023 3:50:16 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man. )
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