“non-traumatic sudden cardiac arrest”
IOW, they didn’t have a hope in Hades of using commotio cordis to explain it away.
“Non-traumatic” enough they had to do this:
“McKay-Dee Hospital, where their critical care team continued treatment with therapeutic hypothermia to lower the body temperature to preserve his neurological function,” the school said in a press release. “
My dad had a cardiac arrest - no therapeutic hypothermia needed, no issue with neurological function. He did have immediate CPR & was quickly shocked back to a heart rhythm. Every patient is different, but IMO, no cardiac arrest is ‘non-traumatic’.