After Damar Hamlin’s on-field collapse, NFL teams held training for CPR, AED and first aid. That training has already paid off for Rams defensive coordinator Raheem Morris.
Morris recently helped save the life of a drowning 3-year-old at a pool at Encore Las Vegas. ESPN reported the child was pulled from the pool by his father and had no pulse. Morris came over to see how he could help as a lifeguard began doing CPR compressions.
“I saw people calling 911 so my first question was, where is the AED?” Morris told ESPN. “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 OK.”
Morris’ wife, Nicole, wrote in an Instagram post that the child was discharged from the hospital 24 hours later.
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Morris credited Reggie Scott, the Rams’ vice president of sports medicine and performance, for the CPR, AED and first aid training sessions that had been organized following Hamlin’s collapse. Hamlin suffered cardiac arrest during a “Monday Night Football” game late in the season against the Bengals, and was revived by on-field CPR administered by assistant athletic trainer Denny Kellington, who was…
