When 16-year-old Haley Meche stepped out onto the flag football field, she didn't know it would nearly kill her.
die from sudden cardiac arrest each year – many without previously known heart issues.has a condition at risk for sudden cardiac arrest," said Dr. Jonathan Drezner, the head of the UW Medical Center for Sports Cardiology in Washington, to"GMA."in student athletes, according to Drezner. A risk that most athletes don't even know about, he said.who suffer sudden cardiac arrest have no symptoms prior," said Drezner.
"It's never okay for a kid to die out of nowhere because they never know that they have a heart condition," said Meche.Meche's school was one out of more than 150 schools in Florida that require student athletes to get an ECG before they play. Her doctors told her that early detection saved her life.
He said he didn't have any symptoms so he wouldn't have known if it weren't for his preventative heart screening.