17-year-old Long Island high school football player Robert Bush on life support after collapsing on field: ‘Dealing with the end’

A high school football player from Long Island is on life support after reportedly collapsing during conditioning drills at Newfield High School earlier this week. 

Robert Bush, 17, of Selden, had only been on the field for about four minutes before he bent over, then passed out due to a “cardiac event” at about 5 p.m. on Monday, his older brother, Steve Bush, told Newsday. 

Despite the efforts of his coaches — who performed CPR and shocked him with a defibrillator — and the emergency medical teams who rushed him to Stony Brook University Hospital, Bush went without blood or oxygen to his brain for at least 45 minutes. 

“There’s no more brain function,” his brother said Thursday, adding that the teen is on life support. “We are dealing with the end right now.”

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