Responders at Narberth Ambulance Company honored three educators at Bala Cynwyd Middle School for their quick-thinking response to the medical emergency of sixth-grade student Steven Green. FOX 29 Philadelphia’s Dawn Timmeny reported the well-deserved recognition.

Green, 12 years old, collapsed Feb. 9 at a school basketball game.

The cause of his episode was unknown at the time. Later, however, it was attributed to arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia, a heart-muscle disease that causes life-threatening cardiac rhythms.

When Green fell, gym teacher Adam Miller ran to his side.

“I checked his pulse,” Green remembered, “and there was nothing there.”

He called 911 and alerted school nurse Mary Clary to the emergency. She raced to the gym and began CPR.

Fellow gym teacher Collin Whiteside assisted Clary in her resuscitation effort until Narberth Ambulance Company paramedics got to the school. They then sped Green to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where he recovered.

Miller, Clary, and Whiteside were all officially commended.

Octavia Anderson, Green’s mother, said: “I can’t thank everyone involved enough on behalf of our family to still have my baby boy, my only son. It was a remarkable day.”

More on the quick actions that saved student Steven Green is at FOX 29 Philadelphia.

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A Johns Hopkins physician explains arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia.