Mar 5, 2008 7:10 pm US/Central
Student Heads Home After Cardiac Arrest At Game
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Minutes into the basketball game between Monticello and Rogers, center Adam Thielen collapsed on the court. (File)
CBS
A high school senior is back home on Wednesday, four days after he collapsed during a basketball game. Just minutes into a game on Friday night, Adam Thielen of Monticello went into cardiac arrest.
The teen was taken to North Memorial Medical Center where they used an Intravascular Temperature Management therapy to help save Adam's life. It worked by cooling his body to 90 degrees for 24 hours in the hopes of preventing any damage to his brain, which is necessary to protect vital organs such as the heart and brain following cardiac arrest.
His father said he is thankful this type of therapy worked to save his son, but he also thankful for the Automated External Defibrillator that rescuers used on his son right after he collapsed.
"That unit over there, that says AED, if that was not available at Monticello High School last Friday night and, just as important, there were people who knew how to use it, Adam would not have been with us," said Paul Thielen, Adam's father.
Adam had a permanent defibrillator implanted into his heart on Tuesday. That means he will no longer be able to play competitive sports. But he will be able to go back to school in the next couple of days and he hopes to continue on with his basketball team in a different capacity.
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