Defibrillators

29 2007 10:21 PM ET CTV.ca News Staff A growing chorus of doctors and parents is calling for They say the devices could help save lives in cases where children with undiagnosed heart problems collapse from cardiac arrest.

Doctors say such incidents are not as rare as one might think, and having a defibrillator nearby could save many young lives.

Dorothy and John McEachern lost their son Chase to sudden cardiac arrest.

"He collapsed at school on February 9, 2006.

It was in gym class," says Dorothy.

The avid athlete had an underlying heart problem.

His heart started beating wildly.

By the time he got to hospital, Chase had already incurred severe brain damage.

He later died.

"You could say it's rare, but it does happen to children," says his father, John.

Last month, an eight-year-old Toronto-area boy also died at school during phys.

ed class, becau...

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