Bronny James cardiac arrest – latest: 911 audio captures moments after collapse as LeBron thanks doctors

Vincent Iwuchukwu, a basketball player at USC, also experienced a similar cardiac arrest incident last summer.

Last year, When Mr Iwuchukwu was an incoming freshman he was practicing with his team when he went into cardiac arrest. A defibrillator was used to restore his heartbeat and he was hospitalised.

Mr Iwuchukwu returned to play 14 games for the team last season.

Cardiac arrest in young athletes happens more often than is realised, and the key to averting disaster is quick thinking by bystanders.

Bronny James was practicing at USC early on Monday morning. At some point, he collapsed, prompting USC medical and athletic staff to call 911.

At 9.26am, Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics were called to the Galen Centre — where USC practices — to handle a medical emergency. When they arrived, they found and began treating Bronny.

Once he was loaded into an ambulance, he was taken “code three lights and sirens” to a hospital for treatment, according to the Los Angeles Times, citing a spokeswoman for the LAFD.

Bronny was treated in an intensive care unit. He was eventually released from the unit in stable condition.

The following day, TMZ reported on the incident, prompting a statement from James and his wife, Savannah, Bronny’s mother.

“LeBron and Savannah wish to publicly send their deepest thanks and appreciation to the USC medical and athletic staff for their incredible work and dedication to the safety of their athletes,” the James family said in a statement.

The statement also said the family would provide updates on Bronny’s condition as they learned more.

Medical evidence gives us almost zero reason to link the young basketballer’s case to Covid-19 jabs.

After LeBron James’ son, Bronny, experienced cardiac arrest during basketball practice on Monday, the 18-year-old was rushed to the hospital where he received treatment.

Bronny, as of Tuesday morning, was out of the intensive care unit and in stable condition.

The James family thanked medical staff for acting quickly but since yesterday have not given any further updates.

A pair of cardiologists who did not treat Bronny James but are familiar with cardiac arrests spoke to the Los Angeles Times and offered their thoughts on his likely recovery.

They noted that Bronny’s removal from an intensive care unit within 24 hours of his cardiac event was “really promising.”

“Even for a young, healthy athlete, being out of the ICU already is pretty good,” Dr Cheng-Han Chen, medical director of Pacific Cardiovascular Associates Medical Group’s structural heart disease program in Southern California, told the LA Times.

Cardiac arrest is “the sudden loss of all heart activity due to an irregular heart rhythm,” and is also referred to as sudden cardiac arrest or sudden cardiac death, according to the Mayo Clinic. Cardiac arrest refers to when the heart stops completely, and the body no longer has blood or oxygen flow. If not treated immediately, the condition can lead to death.

The National Institute of Health attributes the cause of cardiac arrest to types of arrhythmias, irregular heartbeats that stop the blood from pumping through to the heart, with the main causes “ventricular fibrillation or ventricular tachycardia,” both types of arrhythmias.

If a person has had prior cardiac arrest, heart valve disease, arrhythmias caused by gene defects, congenital heart defects, or coronary heart disease, they are more at risk. Family history, smoking, obesity, diabetes, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure, can put an individual at risk too.

A heart attack differs from sudden cardiac arrest, as a heart attack means blood flow to a specific part of the heart is blocked which has the potential to change the “heart’s electrical activity that leads to sudden cardiac arrest,” while sudden cardiac arrest isn’t a blockage, the Mayo Clinic notes. According to the NIH, sudden cardiac arrest typically causes the individual to become unconscious and stops their breathing.

NFL player Damar Hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest during a game on 2 January.

The Buffalo Bills safety collapsed on the field shortly after making a tackle during the clash with the Cincinnati Bengals at the Paycor Stadium in Cincinnati.

A recently released 911 audio recording has revealed that Bronny James, 18, needed CPR before being rushed to the hospital.

Once Mr James experienced cardiac arrest, a 911 call was placed around 9.25am. In the minutes it took an ambulance to arrive, Mr James lost consciousness.

Emergency medical staff expedited Mr James’ transportation calling a “Code three, lights and sirens” to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Mr James’ smooth recovery thus far indicates that the medical staff at USC knew to perform CPR in order to give Mr James the highest chance of survival.