Kaitlyn Hunt, 10, Suffered a Cardiac Arrest
Health by Ava Benny-Morrison
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Subscriber only Kaitlyn Hunt should not be alive after surviving a freak event that her doctors cannot explain. On November 2, she collapsed suddenly in the playground of Smithfield Public School. Classmates thought she d tripped over but Kaitlyn had suffered a cardiac arrest, an extremely rare medical event for a child that very few survive. She was clinically dead for eight minutes while a teacher and paramedics kept her heart beating through CPR. The odds were stacked against Kaitlyn, a quiet young girl who loves playing handball and basketball. But she beat them.