The Latest On Bronny James Suffering Cardiac Arrest At USC

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00:02 - A very scary incident, J-Y,

00:04 that became public knowledge yesterday.

00:07 A statement released by the James family

00:10 in terms of Brawny James,

00:12 who suffered cardiac arrest on Monday

00:15 during a basketball practice and workout on campus at USC.

00:20 He was rushed to the hospital,

00:22 but as of the time of this reading,

00:25 he is out of the ICU and in stable condition.

00:29 J-Y, a very scary incident for Brawny James.

00:33 We are glad that he is stable.

00:34 We thank the athletic and medical training staffs at USC

00:38 for their quick, heroic, life-saving actions,

00:41 but a very scary moment for Brawny James

00:44 and the Trojan basketball program earlier this week.

00:48 - Yeah, it was, Ben,

00:49 and obviously, thank goodness for the training staff.

00:51 And a couple of things, just so people understand this.

00:54 One thing you're seeing a lot of college campuses,

00:56 I think should be mandated on every college campus

00:59 for all activities,

01:00 and we wish you could do it in high school,

01:01 but it costs money, heart rate monitors.

01:04 The wearing of heart rate monitors

01:05 can allow to detect things earlier.

01:07 Companies like Polar have them with apps on an iPad.

01:12 We had them at Monmouth

01:13 where you could see everybody's heart rate going through,

01:15 so you could stop workouts

01:17 if they get a little bit too strenuous.

01:19 Other key, probably the biggest thing, key,

01:22 athletic trainer on staff

01:25 has to be at every workout, lift, and so forth.

01:28 So if something happens, they jump into it.

01:31 Every high major school has one athletic trainer

01:35 just for that team.

01:37 Travel, lifts, practice, games, running,

01:41 trainer's always there.

01:42 So I'm sure the biggest hero

01:45 is probably the trainer at USC

01:48 who was there to take care of Brawny.

01:50 This stuff is taken care of

01:51 at the high major and mid-major D1 level.

01:54 There needs to be talk about this being

01:56 all over the place in college,

01:58 and maybe in high school as well,

02:00 because let's be honest,

02:02 this happens, Ben, unfortunately,

02:05 a lot more than we know.

02:07 It's just not reported on.

02:09 If you look at the past three decades

02:12 of actual data, actual real scientific numbers,

02:16 the leading cause of death in young athletes

02:19 is cardiac arrest events and heart conditions

02:23 that sometimes can be underlying

02:25 and undiagnosed by medical professionals

02:28 until a scary incident like such happens.

02:32 We saw it last year in the National Football League

02:35 with DeMar Hamlin.

02:36 And to reiterate what J-Y just said,

02:38 a praise for the athletic staff

02:40 that needs to be there at all times.

02:43 They are the heroes, the unsung heroes

02:46 in these dramatic and chaotic sequences

02:49 that save lives and keep people in stable condition.

02:53 So again, look at the data over the last 30 years.

02:58 Brawny James, what we can say on this Wednesday morning,

03:02 out of the ICU, he is recovering,

03:05 he is in stable condition.

03:07 That is the thankfully very good news.

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