Medical Student, 28, dies of cardiac arrest after collapsing during basketball games

• Brenan Cullimore died on March 7 of cardiac arrest after collapsing during a basketball game
• 28-year-old suffered from a rare genetic heart disease called Brugada syndrome but was not properly trained about how it affected his health
• His wife Abby Cullimore now shares his devastating history to raise awareness of Brugada syndrome

A medical student died of cardiac arrest due to a rare genetic condition, and now his wife shares his story in the hope of raising awareness.

On Wednesday, March 5, Brenan Cullimore played a pick-up game with basketball with its friends. The 28-year-old suddenly felt weak before collapsing.

“What I have been told is he suddenly was like” I feel dizzy, “said his wife Abby Cullimore, 27 Today. “He lay down and suddenly he lost consciousness.”

Brenan’s friends quickly called 911, waiting for an ambulance to arrive. Although they did not receive instructions to start CPR, they eventually began compressions for 15 minutes until a doctor showed up and took him to a nearby hospital. Brena Led Heart Stop.

Cardiac arrest is the sudden loss of heart function, as a result of a problem with the heart’s electrical system, according to Mayo Clinic. This interferes with the heart’s pumping plant and stops the blood flow through the body.

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After coming to the hospital, doctors continued compressions. Abby, who is a nurse, knew that her husband was in poor shape.

“I obviously know what that means if you don’t get back any heart rate and the potential for how much oxygenation did not go into his body for a longer period,” she told the outlet. “They told me:“ He’s very sick. We still make compressions. “So at this point, it has probably been 45 minutes since the first loss of awareness.”

The doctors eventually placed the Brena on an extracorporeal membranoxygenation (ECMO) machine, which supports patients with failed hearts and lungs by pumping oxygen throughout the body and recognizing him to the intensive department. “He regained his heart rhythm,” shared Abby. “He had a weak heartbeat on his own.”

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The following day, however, the blood pressure of the brew and kept “refueling” and inflammation in his brain were built. On Friday, two days after the cardiac arrest, an EEG showed “no signs of brain activity.”

“We took him from life support,” Abby said.

Before his death, the Brena had recently learned from his parents that he had the gene for Brugada syndrome.

Brugada syndrome, a rare but potentially life-threatening inherited heart disease that causes the lower chambers of hearts to beat in an abnormal rhythm, according to Cleveland Clinic. The irregular heartbeat-ventricular fibrillation (V-FIB)-prevents the blood to pump to the brain and cause a person to faint or sudden cardiac death.

Abby explained that she and the Brena did not fully understand what to have the rare state for his health, and she wishes they got more education about it.

“It’s frustrating because the Brena is a very smart person, and he would have listened to the advice that the doctors gave him if it was provided – and it wasn’t,” she said.

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Abby told the outlet that she is destroyed by the sudden loss. After the couple got married in October 2023, the Brena had registered in the medical school and dreamed of becoming a surgeon.

“He just did it so well (at the School of Medicine) and patients loved him because of his personality,” she said.

“It’s the worst pain I could ever have imagined,” she added. “If I can stop it from happening to someone, I feel and my family and his family would like it.”

Now Abby uses its grief as motivation to raise awareness of Brugada syndrome as well as the importance of CPR after cardiac arrest.

“Having access to defibrillators in places (there) people playing sports should be a no-brainer,” she explained. “People should also consider being educated in CPR if they can. It can obviously save lives.”

“It gives us a kind of mission and purpose to move forward,” she said. “We want to keep his spirit alive and never stop talking about him because he is so amazing.”