A medical team performed CPR on the 14-year-old son of ex-Yankees star Brett Gardner for 30 minutes in a Costa Rican hotel room but could not save him, the unit’s director told the New York Post on Wednesday.
Dr. Kevin Gannon, who operates a nearby urgent care in the Manuel Antonio area, said Miller Gardner was unresponsive when emergency personnel arrived.
“We tested him for cardiac arrest and performed CPR for more than 30 minutes,” Gannon told the newspaper. “There was not really much we could significantly do.”
In an interview with People, Gannon, who did not directly treat the boy, said Miller was “clinically dead when we arrived.”
“Indications of vomiting” were present but Gannon said they could not confirm it was from Miller, CNN reported.
The entire family reportedly got sick the previous night after eating at a nearby restaurant, likely from food poisoning, according to reports.
Miller died on March 21, “peacefully in his sleep,” Gardner and his wife Jessica wrote in a social media post. But there has been confusion surrounding his death.
Authorities initially surmised that the boy died of “asphyxiation due to intoxication related to food poisoning” but later ruled out asphyxiation because there was no obstruction to the airways, the Judicial Investigation Police’s Marisel Rodriguez told CNN.
There was no preliminary indication that recreational drugs or alcohol played a role either, another official told the Daily Mail.
Toxicology reports to ascertain the cause of death could take months, Rodriguez added.
The 41-year-old Gardner, who played 14 seasons as an outfielder for the Yankees, wrote of Miller that his family “cannot yet comprehend our life without his infectious smile.”
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