Maryland to blame for McNair’s death
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According to a report released Friday, Maryland’s athletic training staff failed to quickly diagnose and treat heatstroke symptoms properly on May 29. A little while later, 19-year-old Jordan McNair — an offensive lineman — passed away. This comes via EMaryland to blame for McNair’s death
According to a report released Friday, Maryland’s athletic training staff failed to quickly diagnose and treat heatstroke symptoms properly on May 29. A little while later, 19-year-old Jordan McNair — an offensive lineman — passed away. This comes via ESPN’s Heather Dinich.“…there might have been the opportunity to reverse the patient’s core temperature,” the report reads.“Hindsight is 20/20,” says Rod Waters — who conducted the investigation. “I think if we would have identified that earlier, it might have changed things. I think if we would have identified that earlier, it might have changed things.”Of course, it did not. And now, McNair is tragically no longer with us.“Obviously we’ve looked at it, we’ve seen that there were some shortcomings,” says Maryland Athletic Director Damon Evans. “… We’ve got to educate, we’ve got to continuously go through our policies, our procedures, our protocols to make sure our staff is informed of what they need to do should situations like this arise.” Again, it shouldn’t Read more