Prep Running Back Suffers Post-TD Cardiac Arrest

Running back Hayward Demison scored the winning touchdown Friday night for Central Catholic High School in Portland, Ore. But the celebration ended abruptly when Demison informed his coach that he was having trouble breathing and collapsed. "He wasn't breathing, he didn't have a pulse, his pupils weren't reacting to anything," Lisa Lyver, a cardiac nurse who was a spectator in the stands that night, told Portland's KGW-TV. "At that point, I started doing chest compressions on him."

Demison was in sudden cardiac arrest, the result of a defective left coronary artery - a lifelong ailment that had gone AED was available during the game, but it was not used, the NBC affiliate reported.

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