When Drew Strasser collapsed, his teammate Jake performed CPR, and his coach used a defibrillator to help. Their quick action likely saved his life.
to jolt his heart. Their quick action likely saved the teen’s life.
“It wouldn’t have been as likely that they could have saved his life with the AED had he not be inside the school in close proximity to it,” Laneia Strasser said. Drew Strasser was in Riley Hospital for Children for nearly a month after experiencing sudden cardiac arrest.His parents wondered if Drew Strasser experienced a seizure, so his mom called the principal to try to find out more information. The EMT thought it might've been a heart attack. Once the Strassers got to the hospital, they received a little more information.,” Laneia Strasser said. “It was very traumatic. Scary, scary, scary morning.
After doctors at the nearby hospital stabilized the teen, he was transferred to Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis, where doctors tried to figure out why his heart wasn’t working properly. Seeing him in the cardiac intensive care unit on a ventilator with no explanation for he went into cardiac arrest was already tough for Drew Strasser's parents. But then, he became seriously ill.
“He was very disoriented when they took him off the ventilator. He knew where he was, but he kept getting confused like, ‘Why am I here?'” his mom recalled. “We had to keep explaining to him multiple times, ‘You collapsed at tennis.’” Doctors couldn’t find the underlying cause of the teenage athlete's sudden cardiac arrest, so they recommended an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator be placed in his chest. That way, if he ever experienced an erratic heartbeat, the device would shock his heart back into a healthy rhythm. It sounded scary to Drew Strasser, but one of his doctors had one and talked to him about it.
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