Teenage high school football player Robert Bush is on a life support machine after collapsing on the field at a practice session.
Bush, 17, attends Newfield High School in Selden, New York, and is said to have bent over before collapsing after suffering a "cardiac event" mere minutes into an evening conditioning drill, his older brother, Steve, told Newsday. After coaches performed CPR and used a defibrillator at the scene, the emergency services took the teenager to Stony Brook University Hospital on Long Island.
The cause for the collapse remains unknown, but the family has told the outlet that Bush may have a hereditary condition causing the walls of the heart's left ventricle to thicken. It prevents the heart from receiving or pumping blood around the body during heartbeats.
