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Martin Walker Handles Case Of 13-year old’s Preventable Death

Martin Walker Handles Case Of 13-year old’s Preventable Death

Martin Walker Handles Case Of 13-year old’s Preventable Death

In August 2018, Kyrell McBride-Johnson collapsed on the football field during tryouts and later died while being taken to the hospital. It was determined that Kyrell had died of a pre-existing heart condition even though he had been screened and cleared by CareNow clinic in Fort Worth. Critically, Kyrell had checked yes to three important questions:
“Have you ever had chest pain during or after exercise?
“Have you ever become ill from exercising in the heat?”
“Do you have asthma?”
“These questionnaires are designed to be a screening tool, and it needed to be taken seriously,” Reid Martin said about the case. “They just didn’t do their job in this case. He should be with us today because this was a preventable death.”
An autopsy showed that Kyrell died of a heart anomaly called an anomalous coronary artery, which is the second most common cause of death among young athletes.
“I want the medical community to know what happened and to take these screenings more seriously,” Kyrell’s mother, Monica McBride-Debbs said. “That would prevent any other parent, any other mom, to have to go through what I went through with my 13-year-old son, who had a very promising life ahead of him.”
This case has gotten coverage on The Dallas Morning News, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, NBC 5 News in Dallas, and others.