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Friday, February 8 Hits and Runs...Bumps and Bruises
Friday, April 10 Baseball to the Chest Stops Heart By Lela Garlington Wednesday, April 8, 2009 Click here to view the video - then contact your local league to get CPR training. The life you save may be your own child's. It was as if lightning had struck the baseball player in the chest and shorted his heart's electrical circuit, medical staff say. Instead, a catcher throwing a ball to third base last weekend hit Kyle McCammon in the chest. The impact, which hit Kyle between the second and fourth rib, stopped his heart from beating. Luckily for 12-year-old Kyle, who plays competitive baseball as a Southaven Panther, his mother is a nurse, and she and two other nurses ran to his aid. The freakish incident happened at 5:35 p.m. Saturday during the Rumble on the River tournament between the Southaven Panthers and the Arkansas Rattlers at First Tennessee Fields in Cordova. When his mother, Mary McCammon, rushed on the field, she saw that her son was still breathing, but it was shallow and labored. His eyes had glazed over and he couldn't respond. Her husband, assistant coach David McCammon initially thought the breath had been knocked out of him -- a typical baseball injury. But Mary McCammon, a home health nurse, realized it was much more serious. Taking her middle and index fingers she placed them against her son's neck: "I couldn't feel a pulse. It was like I was in a tunnel. It was just me and Kyle." Another nurse and mom, Cyndi Herrington of Olive Branch tried the other side. She couldn't feel a pulse either. Color was draining from Kyle's face. His lips were turning blue. "I think we all said in unison, 'He's not breathing. We need to do CPR,'" the child's mother recalled. That's when another nurse from the opposing team, Deanna Gilbert of Marked Tree, Ark., stepped in and offered to help. "I got this Mom," Gilbert told Mary McCammon. Twenty compressions to the chest. A single breath. Twenty more compressions to the chest. Another breath. For seven minutes, the two nurses did what they had been trained to do. Because of them, Kyle survived. As tears streamed down her face that day, Herrington said all she could think about was, "I can't let this child die." By the time the ambulance arrived, Kyle had regained consciousness. He stayed overnight at Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center, and Mary McCammon said doctors gave her son a clean bill of health. Kyle was diagnosed with "commotio cordis," which means commotion or concussion of the heart. "It's very rare," explained Dr. Barry Gilmore, Le Bonheur's medical director for Emergency Services. When it happens, it is often with boys playing sports -- particularly baseball. "We don't even see one a year. The overall survival rate is 15 percent," he said. "The ones who have immediate CPR or a defibrillator -- within the first one to three minutes -- survive." From 1996 to 2007, just 188 cases have been reported to the U.S. Commotio Cordis Registry. That is why the Southaven Panther coaches are now getting CPR training. Kyle remembers being hit and trying to get up but nothing after that. His mother is hoping her son's brush with death will convince others to get cardiopulmonary resuscitation or CPR training. Even better, she said, "These defibrillators are under $1,000. They should be really anywhere people are. "Never in a million years would you think a ball would stop his heart. But it did," Mary McCammon said. "Those nurses saved his life." Saturday, February 7 Heads Up: Concussion in Youth Sports
Saturday, February 7
Sunday, February 8 ASAP Newsletters Starting in October 1998, Little League, with the help of Musco Lighting, began publishing ASAP Newsletters. Every one of those Safety Newsletters can be found on the Little League website and are a wealth of information for leagues who are concerned about the safety of their players and volunteers. We now have a National Average of 81% of leagues participating in safety programs! Three states have 100% participation: West Virginia, Oregon and Maryland. Georgia claimed 80% participation in 2008. However 4 districts in Georgia continue to have 100% participation: Districts 2, 4, 7, and 10. To view all the past newsletters, go to: http://www.littleleague.org/Learn_More/Newsletters/ASAP_Newsletter.htm Sunday, February 8 Understanding Little League Insurance
Little League requires each local league to carry accident insurance on their players and volunteers. The local leagues may choose to insure with the Little League carriers or they may insure with local carriers.
The parents or guardians must complete side 1 of the form. A league official will complete side 2 of the form and submit the form to Little League Baseball, Inc. Handout: Insurance/Accident Information Safety Manual for Baseball and Softball Injuries
This Safety Manual was first published by Little League Baseball in 1989. It is no longer published or available.
Be aware that the manual does NOT teach the user to become a trained medical person, only to recognize injuries and administer basic first aid to mild injuries and know when expert help is needed for the more severe injuries. Handout: Baseball and Softball Injuries Overuse Injuries
There have been many articles written about "overuse injuries" in young athletes. One of the most common injuries is labeled "Little Leaguer's elbow" even though it is not limited only to players in Little League programs. Saturday, February 7 Smokeless Tobacco: Safer Than Cigarettes?
Like too many teenagers, Von Behrens first tried spit tobacco at age 13 to “fit in.” By age 17, he was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma. Where do kids get this idea? Macho, rugged and carefully-crafted tobacco advertisements have played a large role in spit tobacco use among minors. The tobacco industry touts its spit tobacco products as a “safer alternative to cigarettes,” but Gruen will be the first to tell you that just isn’t so. According to the Centers for Disease Control, 14.8% of high school males in the U.S. currently use spit tobacco. Over 1 million kids in the U.S. will try spit tobacco this year alone, with over 300,000 of them becoming regular users. The use of tobacco is one of the leading contributors to oral disease, and each year over 30,000 people are diagnosed with oral cancer with 50% of them dying within five years. This Stewardson, Illinois native now travels and shares the real life consequences of his own spit tobacco use with the public on behalf of Oral Health America’s National Spit Tobacco Education Program (NSTEP), and warns young people to stay away from the spit tobacco that he believes caused his cancer. Visit the official web site of NSTEP at www.nstep.org or click on the title of the article. Sunday, February 8 A Guide to Quitting Spit Tobacco Inform yourself about the dangers of spit tobacco, how it becomes an addiction, the truths and myths of spit tobacco, how to quit the habit. Interviews with Major League Ballplayers are sprinkled throughout this presentation. Click on the title bar above to view the presentation. |
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