March 17th 2023.
The mother of high school cheerleader Keianna Joe, Andrea Joe, sprang into action and used her CPR knowledge when her daughter became unresponsive during a warmup for a cheerleading competition at a North Carolina high school on March 5. She stated, “I immediately ran to her side and I felt for a pulse and I didn’t feel a pulse. I am CPR-certified…I’ve been trained on an AED device and I knew kind of at that moment that she needs this…and I know how to do it.” Keianna's teammates noticed something was wrong as they were letting her down from the air during a stunt, and a good samaritan handed Andrea an automated external defibrillator, or AED, that was stored in the high school’s gym. Andrea went on to explain, “I grabbed the pads and I just kind of ripped her uniform up over her head and threw the pads on her and hit the button. It said, ‘shock advised,’ and that was alarming because you train on these devices all the time and every time you train on them, they never deliver a shock because it’s not a live patient.”
Keianna is now back home and recovering after being transferred to Duke University Hospital, where doctors noted she had gone into cardiac arrest. She underwent surgery on Monday to insert an implantable cardioverter defibrillator. According to Dr. Zebulon Zachary Spector, the pediatric cardiologist who performed Keianna’s surgery, “Her mom delivering high-quality CPR to her for the few minutes it took to get the AED there basically allowed her to escape with no brain damage. And she’s probably alive because there was an AED on-site and her mom knew how to use it.”
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