Livorno player dies of heart attack
时间：2012-04-16 03:24:48
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ROME, April 14 (Xinhua) -- All Italian matches scheduled in the weekend were suspended after Livorno midfielder Piermario Morosini died on Saturday from a heart attack during a Serie B match, local media said.
A crowd of players and supporters shouted and cried outside a hospital in Pescara, a city in central Italy, when cardiologist Edoardo De Blasio confirmed the death of the 25-year-old.
Morosini began to
stagger1 in the 31th minute of the Pescara-Livorno match and then fell to the ground.
Medical staff tried to
revive2 the player and then rushed him to the hospital, but Morosini's conditions were already too desperate to save him, doctors said.
It was only the lastest of a long series of sudden deaths in the sport world. A few days ago, another Italian, former Olympic volleyball silver medalist
Vigor3 Bovolenta, died of a heart attack during a second-tier league game.
The Pescara accident aroused a debate on local media, as some experts
denounced4 the ambulance was blocked for some minutes by a parked car thus arrived too late to help the unfortunate player on the spot.
An
investigation5 was held over the case, local media said in the late afternoon.
"Nowadays it is
anachronistic6 to have a defibrillator on an ambulance which has difficulties in arriving fast enough," cardiologist Daniela Aschieri told Rai state television.
Aschieri has developed the first European project for an "early defibrillation" to prevent sudden deaths due to cardiac arrest.
"Defibrillator is a fundamental saving-life instrument, not expensive and that every person can easily handle," the doctor said adding every minute lost in first aid means 10 percent less of
probabilities7 to save a life.
"This instrument should be available not only on ambulances, but on the benches of all matches, including children ones," she stressed.
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