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Locust Valley board praises staff response after student collapses; district to add AEDs and post cardiac‑response plan
Summary
After a student became unresponsive at a basketball tryout, school leaders and first responders credited coaches’ CPR and AED use for saving the student; the district said it will purchase additional AEDs and post a draft cardiac emergency response plan for 30 days under recently enacted state law.
A student who collapsed at a Locust Valley Central School District basketball tryout was revived by coaches and emergency personnel, and the district said it will buy additional automated external defibrillators (AEDs) and publish a draft cardiac emergency response plan for public comment.
An administrator who opened the meeting described arriving at the high school gym after a head-of-security call and riding with the student to Glencoe Hospital while staff contacted the family. "I rode with him to the Glencoe Hospital while trying to reach his mother," the administrator said in remarks to the assembled audience. The hospital later moved the student to a children's hospital.
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