Texas' AED Mandate a Life-Saving Precedent

Texas may be setting a life-saving precedent with its new AED mandate.

Lll 507 Ab Steve Ramsey, the offensive line coach for Westlake High School in Austin, Texas, had just finished congratulating Matt Nader on a strategic second-quarter block against an A&M Consolidated High School defender when the 6-foot-6, 300-pound senior fell backward off the sideline bench. In front of 4,500 stunned fans at College Station's Tigerland Stadium that warm mid-September night, Nader lay with his eyeballs rolled back in his head, his lips blue and his cleat-clad feet disconcertingly propped up by the bench he'd been sitting on moments earlier. Later, a teammate's father who was on the scene told the Austin American-Statesman that Nader wore "the look of death."

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