AN AUTOPSY WILL DETERMINE HOW HE DIED. TWO STUDENTS TRIED BRINGING PRADO BACK BY USING CPR BEFORE THE AMBULANCE GOT THERE. IN 2016, A LAW WAS PASSED REQUIRING THOSE IN HIGH SCHOOL TO TAKE A CPR COURSE, BUT TARGET 7 JOHN CARDINELLI HAS DISCOVERED THE STATE’S LARGEST SCHOOL DISTRICT MAY NOT BE FOLLOWING THAT LAW. FOR THE SOUND OF BASEBALL FILLS THE AIR AT A FIELD IN NORTHWEST ALBUQUERQUE. IT’S GOOD TO BE OUT HERE. NOT EVERYBODY CAN DO IT. AND, UH, YOU CAN’T TAKE IT FOR GRANTED. ACROSS TOWN AT ANOTHER BASEBALL FIELD, THERE’S NOTHING BUT THE SOUND OF SILENCE AS THE RIO GRANDE BASEBALL TEAM REMEMBERS 17 YEAR OLD ISAAC VENZOR PRADO. IT’S JUST SAD BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, HE WAS JUST RUNNING, AND THEN HE JUST COLLAPSED. ISAAC’S SUDDEN DEATH HAS HIT THE BASEBALL COMMUNITY. THERE’S MORE TO LIFE THAN BASEBALL. MY HEART GOES OUT TO THE KID AND THE FAMILY, AND I PRAY FOR HIM EVERY DAY. ACCORDING TO THE MAYO CLINIC, CARDIAC ARREST IS THE LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH IN YOUNG ATHLETES. DOCTOR BARRY RAMOS SAYS MANY OF THOSE DEATHS ARE RELATED TO HEART DEFECTS. BUT I THINK THE MAJOR REASON WHY AN ATHLETE MIGHT BE AT GREATER RISK IS THAT IF THEY HAVE A CONGENITAL PROBLEM, WHETHER IT’S THE HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY OR A HEART RHYTHM DISTURBANCE, ALL THE ADRENALINE THAT’S PRODUCED WITH EXERCISE COULD TRIGGER A LETHAL RHYTHM DISTURBANCE. AND DURING A MEDICAL EPISODE, DOCTOR RAMOS SAYS KNOWING HOW TO CORRECTLY PERFORM CPR IS BENEFICIAL. STUDIES HAVE SHOWN THAT IF THE STUDENTS IN THE SCHOOLS ARE TRAINED, SURVIVAL FROM OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST IS MUCH BETTER. THAT’S WHY IN 2016, WHEN DOCTOR RAMO HELPED PASS A BILL WHICH REQUIRES ALL NINTH GRADE STUDENTS TO LEARN CPR AND HEALTH CLASS BECAUSE OF COVID, THAT PROGRAM THAT WE STARTED WITH, PROJECT HEART START HAD HAD DIMINISHED BOTH THIS YEAR AND LAST YEAR. DOCTOR RAMOS SENT THESE LETTERS TO ALBUQUERQUE PUBLIC SCHOOLS REMINDING THEM WHAT THEIR OBLIGATION IS UNDER LAW. WE REACHED OUT TO APS AND ASKED THEM IF THEY’RE OFFERING CPR TRAINING TO NINTH GRADERS. THEY TOLD US THEY WERE, SO WE ASKED STUDENTS, NO, WE’VE NEVER DONE THAT. NO, I’VE NEVER I’VE NEVER DONE THAT. OH NO, I’VE NEVER HEARD ABOUT IT. BUT DOCTOR RAMOS SAYS HE EXPECTS THE PROGRAM TO START BACK UP SOON. WE’RE NOW MEETING WITH THE ALBUQUERQUE PUBLIC SCHOOLS HEALTH EDUCATORS TO GET THAT PROGRAM GOING AGAIN, BUT IT HASN’T BEEN DONE FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS, AND APS STUDENTS WHO PLAY BASEBALL THINK IT’S A GOOD IDEA TO LEARN. FOR TARGET 7. IF WE CAN LEARN HOW TO DO IT, THEN WE CAN MAYBE SAVE OUR FRIENDS. AND YOU KNOW, I’M JOHN CARDINALE HEALTH IS A REQUIRED CLASS FOR GRADUATION. AN APS SAYS THAT’S WHERE CPR IS TAUGHT. WE GOT A COPY OF THE APS COURSE CATALOG AND CPR IS NOT LISTED UNDER THE HEALTH CLASS CURRICULUM. IT IS LISTED, HOWEVER, UNDER