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Coaches save life of collapsed St. Ed wrestler

TDR Editor’s Notes;  From back home in Ohio.  Our compliments and admiration to Coach Jayne!
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By Mark Palmer, InterMat Senior Writer12/4/2018mark@intermatwrestle.com, Twitter: @MatWriter

Two coaches at the St. Edward High School wrestling program — ranked No. 5 in the nation by InterMat — are credited with saving the life a 15-year-old wrestler during practice last week at the Lakewood, Ohio school, WJW-TV, the Fox affiliate in Cleveland reported Monday.

St. Ed assistant wrestling coach Mark Jayne told WJW, “The student-athlete was gasping, could not breathe, there was like long gaps in between, so I know that does not count as breathing and he wasn’t responding.”  Jayne, a three-time Ohio state champ for St. Ed who now teaches CPR (cardio-pulmonary resuscitation) in his health class at his high school alma mater, began using an AED (automatic external defibrillator) that another coach had brought to where the wrestler had collapsed, and applied the pads as directed to revive the student-athlete.  Jayne, who is a certified instructor in using CPR, told WJW that AED machines automatically guide the user step-by-step through the process of reviving a patient.  “You’ve got to look at the picture. It tells you exactly where to put it, so even though your adrenaline is running high, you know where to go,” said Jayne.  Thanks to the quick response of Coach Jayne and his colleagues — as well as having easy access to the AEDs located throughout the St. Ed campus — the teenager was breathing when paramedics arrived.  Rest of the story at https://intermatwrestle.com/articles/20885

December 5, 2018 - Posted by The TakeDown Report | Uncategorized