Raheem Morris.Photo:Jordon Kelly/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images
Jordon Kelly/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images
Los Angeles Rams coach Raheem Morris is crediting his team for his heroic know-how in a life-saving emergency.
The defensive coordinator helped save a 3-year-old boy at a Las Vegas pool after he stopped breathing, according toESPN.
Using protocols learned with theNFL, such as knowing the importance of an automatic external defibrillator (AED), Morris was able to retrieve the apparatus and have it ready to assist a doctor on-site to revive the child.
“I saw people calling 911 so my first question was, where is the AED?” Morris, 46, told ESPN on Wednesday.
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Raheem Morris.Alisha Jucevic for The Washington Post via Getty Images
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He added, “When I got back, we had a doctor on site that was able to start the compressions. I was able to hand the AED to him, get it open for him, put the pads on the child, and he ended up being okay.”
“I’m just thankful I knew what to do,” Morris added in his conversation with ESPN. “You just never know when you’re going to need that stuff.”
The husband and father, who was vacationing with his wife Nicole and their three kids, also spoke of “the awareness and preparedness” that Buffalo Bills safetyDamar Hamlinhas brought to the masses after his heart stopped following a collapse mid-game on the field in January. (Hamlin, 25, has since been open abouthis ongoing recovery.)
Raheem Morris.Scott Taetsch/Getty Images
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Rams COO Kevin Demoff was quick tohighlight Morris' “quick thinking"in a Twitter post on Wednesday.
Concluded Demoff, “CPR & AEDs save lives.”
source: people.com
