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Defibrillator installed in St. Columban soccer field because of young teen's fatal heart attack
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Krista Granger, Soddart's aunt, and Art McNaughton, Superintendent Paramedic for Huron
County's EMS, are pictured here at St. Columban on May 10. Granger is currently on an
eleven day voyage to donate ten AED's to eleven different sports fields.
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Last Wednesday, the foundation known
as Andrew's Legacy #11Forever donated
a machine that could save lives
Shaun Gregory
Postmedia Network
In May of last year, Andrew
Stoddart rallied up and down
the soccer field in Kintore,
Ontario when suddenly the
game took a turn for the worst
and abruptly he collapsed to the
ground; he would later die of a
sudden cardiac -arrest. If there
was a defibrillator on-site, he
may very well be alive today.
Since then his family has been
proactive with their time to
make sure another youngster
does not suffer the same loss, a
misfortune that took the life of a
boy that did not have the chance
to see his 16th birthday.
To keep the young athlete's
spirit lively, their mission is to
have readily automated external
defibrillators (AED) "everywhere
On May 10, one day before the
one-year anniversary of Stoddart's
death, the foundation known as
Andrew's Legacy #11Forever
arrived in Huron County with
shirts, large cardboard pictures as
well as numerous other pieces of
memorabilia.
His aunt, Krista Granger,
spearheaded the day's event and
her son Tyler joined dressed in
Stoddart's blue and white jersey.
The two cousins' facial features
and body frames were identical,
Granger said. Nevertheless, they
came for one reason and one
reason only - to install one more
defibrillator.
The St. Columban soccer field
was next on the list for the
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11 -day trek involving the Stod-
dart family donating ten AEDs to
eleven sports fields. The trip is
expected to be primarily in the
Huron County and Oxford
County area. Granger told the
Expositor there is no time frame
as to how long these efforts will
continue for.
Andrew was 15; he had no
heart condition that we
knew of. He was a healthy
young athlete. He went down
on the field for 12 minutes
[waiting for an ambulance],
they did CPR and he did not
come home from the
hospital. If this small unit
can save somebody by
getting it on them in three
minutes, they could walk off
the soccer field"
— Stoddart's aunt, Krista Granger
"[We will continue] as long as
we can. As long as there are places
that need an AED, we are going to
be out there putting them out,"
Granger stated at the St. Colum -
ban Soccer Clubhouse.
"Andrew was 15; he had no
heart condition that we knew of.
He was a healthy young athlete.
He went down on the field for 12
minutes [waiting for an ambu-
lance], they did CPR and he did
not come home from the hospi-
tal. If this small unit can save
somebody by getting it on them
in three minutes, they could
walk off the soccer field,"
Marty Bedard, the fire chief of
Huron East, and Seaforth's dis-
trict fire chief, Tom Phillips
attended. They were accompa-
nies by some local political fig-
ures including Huron East CAO
Brad Knight and Seaforth Ward
Councilor Nathan Marshall.
After the $2,000 AED was
installed in the wall, Superinten-
dent Paramedic for Huron
County's EMS, Art McNaughton
performed a demonstration to
show the crowd just how easy
the machine is to use.
"They are very user friendly,"
said McNaughton. "You have
two buttons - an 'on' button and
a 'shock' button. What the
machine will do is it will sensor
if the person is in a shockable
rhythm or not. If it is, it will tell
you to shock. You press the but-
ton and you hope to convert a
person's non -beating heart into
one that is beating."
Currently there are roughly
90 defibrillators in the county
and since they've been
installed, there have been a
couple of lives saved thanks to
the state -of -the art machines.
McNaughton went on to say
that when a person is having a
heart attack, approximately 75
per cent are in ventricular
fibrillation. This means the
heart's electrical activeness is
disorganized, an occurrence
where the lower pumping
chambers undertake in a fast,
abnormal manner.
"Out of the 75 per cent, you
can save about 30 per cent of
those people," he said. "This is a
fairly significant number and
having them out and about in
the area where they can (be) uti-
lized is great."
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