A 16-year-old boy who collapsed at Damien High School in La Verne during morning conditioning exercises remained hospitalized Tuesday.
The boy is a junior football player who firefighters found with no pulse and not breathing when they arrived at the campus at 6:10 a.m. Monday, responding to a call about someone suffering a seizure, La Verne Fire Capt. Dave Benson said in remarks quoted by the San Gabriel Valley Tribune. Benson said the boy, in fact, had not had a seizure, but he didn’t know what occurred before the teen collapsed.
Coaches were performing CPR on the teen when firefighters arrived, Benson said, adding that paramedics”were able to restore heart rate, blood pressure and respiration,” and the boy was taken to Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center in critical condition.
Officials in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles said the teen was taking part in summer conditioning and was in the hospital’s cardiac unit.
Hospital and archdiocese officials said the family didn’t want information released about the boy, whose name was not made public.
—City News Service