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Kansas City Chiefs backup defensive lineman BJ Thompson is “awake and alert,” his agent told NBC News on Friday, after the athlete suffered a seizure and cardiac arrest on Thursday. The 25-year-old athlete Thompson had the seizure during a special teams meeting Thursday and briefly went into cardiac arrest, agent Chris Turnage confirmed, triggering a swift response from fellow team members and staff.
So he was only in cardiac arrest for less than a minute, minute and a half,” Burkholder said. The Kansas City Fire department and paramedics then took over. Thompson was taken to The University of Kansas Health System, where 'he was heavily sedated through the night,' Burkholder said. Thompson was placed on a ventilator overnight 'just so he could breathe because he was so heavily sedated' and he was brought out of sedation Friday morning, he noted. 'He’s alert. He’s awake.
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