Bronny James, son of LeBron James, Is Steady After Heart failure

On Monday, Bronny, a basketball recruit at the University of Southern California, became ill during a practice. His family has reported that he is now out of intensive care and in a stable condition.

On Monday, the son of NBA star LeBron James, Bronny James, experienced a cardiac arrest while practicing at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He was taken to the hospital and admitted to the intensive care unit, but is now in stable condition and no longer in the ICU. A statement from LeBron and his wife Savannah expressed their gratitude to the USC medical and athletic staff for their hard work and dedication to the safety of their athletes. 

The Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a call for medical aid at 9:26 a.m. at the Galen Center athletic facility, but could not disclose who needed medical aid due to federal policy. Bronny James, 18, will be a freshman at USC this fall. He was a four-star recruit and chose USC over Oregon and Ohio State. He is the eldest of LeBron James' three children.

In May, the U.S.C. men's basketball program announced that they were planning a 10-day exhibition trip to Greece and Croatia starting on August 5th. It was uncertain if the team would still go on the trip or if James would join them.

Cardiac arrest is distinct from a heart attack, which occurs when the flow of blood to the heart is blocked. Every year, more than 300,000 people suffer cardiac arrest outside of hospitals. If a person receives bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation, the survival rate is 11.2 percent. However, if they receive immediate defibrillation, the survival rate increases to 41 percent. The treatment James received is unknown.

If a person in cardiac arrest does not receive CPR within four to six minutes, they are likely to suffer brain damage. After 10 minutes, brain death is likely to occur. Only 8 percent of cardiac arrest survivors have a good neurological outcome, while most have some degree of brain injury, according to Monica Sales, a spokeswoman for the American Heart Association, in an interview from January.

Last summer, an incoming freshman at the University of Southern California (U.S.C.), Vincent Iwuchukwu, suffered a cardiac arrest during a workout at the Galen Center and was hospitalized. Despite this, he returned to play in 14 games for the Trojans. Similarly, Keyontae Johnson, a rising star at Florida, went into cardiac arrest during a game in 2020, but eventually recovered and resumed his career at Kansas State, where he was a standout last season and was drafted by Oklahoma City in the second round of the N.B.A. draft. Damar Hamlin also experienced a cardiac arrest during a nationally televised football game last season, and is now attempting to resume his career with the Buffalo Bills. Montrice Wright, the mother of Kijani Wright, a freshman forward with the Trojans, expressed her hope that her son and the other members of the team were coping with the second such incident in just over a year.