Luck visits seriously injured High school player

[Valpo2004]

Good to see players doing this sort of thing.

 

http://www.indystar.com/article/20130828/SPORTS02/308280084/Visit-from-Colts-Andrew-Luck-lifts-spirits-injured-high-school-football-player

[Insert Colts Pun Here]

Good to see players doing this sort of thing.

 

http://www.indystar.com/article/20130828/SPORTS02/308280084/Visit-from-Colts-Andrew-Luck-lifts-spirits-injured-high-school-football-player

 

I tend to live my life believing that anything is possible. However, i firmly believe that it is impossible to not love Andrew Luck.

[GoDeep]

Love this kid.

[jamesie jr]

Luck is such a great guy, Not that RG3 isn't but i'm really happy we picked Luck.

 

I read this wrong though, i thought it said Luck seriously injured, started to panic a little there

[Imped]

So awesome. 

[mvbighead]

Class act.  Very, very nice gesture on his part.

[JoKeR]

Seems odd the high school didn't call an ambulance, instead they get, " hey you might wanna take your kid to the the ER " speeding vehicles with blinkers don't get the same kind of right of way as a ambulance.

That was nice of Luck to visit him though.

[GoColts8818]

Always good to see when athletes get attention for doing the right thing.

[21isSuperman]

Wow.  That kid suffered some brutal injuries.  Here's hoping he heals up quickly.  And it's awesome to see Luck do this kind of stuff

[Dark Superman]

Couldn't of asked for a better QB

[ruksak]

 i firmly believe that it is impossible to not love Andrew Luck.

Have you asked AFCS defensive backs?

[southwest1]

Wow.  That kid suffered some brutal injuries.  Here's hoping he heals up quickly.  And it's awesome to see Luck do this kind of stuff

I'll say..." a ruptured spleen, lacerated kidney and punctured lung." Holy Moly Man! I'm glad you are still here Mr. Bailey; Your guardian angel must have been watching over you son.

 

It was nice of Luck to swing by to lift Steven's spirits. 

[southwest1]

Seems odd the high school didn't call an ambulance, instead they get, " hey you might wanna take your kid to the the ER " speeding vehicles with blinkers don't get the same kind of right of way as a ambulance.

That was nice of Luck to visit him though.

Yeah Joker, that is an excellent point. Why would a school claim he's fine, give him a pair of crutches, & just walk away? I wish all high school athletic Depts were required to have an EMT or certified medical personnel on the field at all times to prevent a fatal misdiagnosis on the field.

 

That's the pink elephant in the room here, especially with internal bleeding when the window between life & death may not always be wide open. Minutes do matter here...

[JlynRN]

Wow, how awesome of Andrew to do this for this injured kid and his family !!!  I'm so glad he is our QB

[UKColt13]

Started to panic due to a massive misread of the title.

But this is just another reason why I love this guy.

[Valpo2004]

Yeah Joker, that is an excellent point. Why would a school claim he's fine, give him a pair of crutches, & just walk away? I wish all high school athletic Depts were required to have an EMT or certified medical personnel on the field at all times to prevent a fatal misdiagnosis on the field.

 

That's the pink elephant in the room here, especially with internal bleeding when the window between life & death may not always be wide open. Minutes do matter here...

 

I never played football but I remember going to High School football games and they actually parked an ambulance right outside of a fence just off of the field and just left it there during game time.

 

Surprised that they didn't even think to call the paramedics for him.  

[JoKeR]

Yeah Joker, that is an excellent point. Why would a school claim he's fine, give him a pair of crutches, & just walk away? I wish all high school athletic Depts were required to have an EMT or certified medical personnel on the field at all times to prevent a fatal misdiagnosis on the field.

 

That's the pink elephant in the room here, especially with internal bleeding when the window between life & death may not always be wide open. Minutes do matter here...

Or the most local hospital to be on call, I guess location could be the issue here.

[JoKeR]

I never played football but I remember going to High School football games and they actually parked an ambulance right outside of a fence just off of the field and just left it there during game time.

 

Surprised that they didn't even think to call the paramedics for him.

That's what I remembered to and it wasn't that close to a hospital being in Knightstown.

[southwest1]

I never played football but I remember going to High School football games and they actually parked an ambulance right outside of a fence just off of the field and just left it there during game time.

 

Surprised that they didn't even think to call the paramedics for him.  

 

 

Or the most local hospital to be on call, I guess location could be the issue here.

Good points Valpo2004 & Joker. I'm not trying to blame the school or their staff here at all. Just that it seems like the school district in question wasn't well prepared to handle a life threatening injury. No one plans to fail. They just fail to plan & the school itself didn't seem well equipped to handle the situation.

 

True, I wasn't there I will admit that & I don't have a 1st hand account of how the scene really unfolded, but the reporter in the article made no mention of any ambulance on site or their crew checking the injured player's vital signs right then & there either. If this player had tragically died, that school would have been in considerable legal trouble. 

 

Yes, internal bleeding can be missed & is difficult to detect if EMTs aren't looking for it specifically, but at least if the patient flatlines on route to the hospital, they can put on their emergency sirens & cut threw traffic faster than his parents or any ordinary civilian could. 

[Valpo2004]

Good points Valpo2004 & Joker. I'm not trying to blame the school or their staff here at all. Just that it seems like the school district in question wasn't well prepared to handle a life threatening injury. No one plans to fail. They just fail to plan & the school itself didn't seem well equipped to handle the situation.

 

True, I wasn't there I will admit that & I don't have a 1st hand account of how the scene really unfolded, but the reporter in the article made no mention of any ambulance on site or their crew checking the injured player's vital signs right then & there either. If this player had tragically died, that school would have been in considerable legal trouble. 

 

Yes, internal bleeding can be missed & is difficult to detect if EMTs aren't looking for it specifically, but at least if the patient flatlines on route to the hospital, they can put on their emergency sirens & cut threw traffic faster than his parents or any ordinary civilian could. 

 

Yeah i went to school in LaPorte and the high school wasn't that far to the hospital either.  Honestly I think at the very least most high school games as well as lower level college games should have a ambulance standing by unless there is a hospital right across the street or something.  (I say that because Valparaiso University literally had a hospital right next to the football field when I went there.  Although that hospital is being moved and they are razing the old one so that will no longer be true in the future.)

 

NFL and FBS level teams have more highly trained medical teams on hand so that they could possibly stabilize a player until a EMS arrived.  But they don't have that at the lower levels.