COLONIE, NY – Little League parents are being hailed for their quick response after they performed CPR on an 11-year-old player who went into cardiac arrest after being hit by a ball, FOX 23 Albany reports.
The New York Little Leaguer was batting during a game Monday night when he was struck by a ball in his chest and went into cardiac arrest.
“That blunt force trauma to the chest literally stops the heart,” explained EMS Deputy Chief Peter Berry.
Quick-thinking parents performed CPR on the child and paramedics were able to restart his heart using a defibrillator.
The league's president said he and the parents who saved the child's life knew what to do because of Little League-mandated training.
“A little boy’s life may have been saved because of that training, we would do nothing differently, and I am very proud of everyone here,” Frank Prevratil said.
The child is now recovering at a local hospital.
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