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Emergency management for sport and physical activity

Includes Forward by National Football League Commissioner, Roger Goodell Written by experts in the field, Emergency Management for Sport and Physical Activity is designed to educate non-Athletic Training majors on the ways in which to prevent sudden death during sport. Often these non-medical profes...

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Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Burlington, MA Jones & Bartlett Learning 2015
Subjects:
Athletic Injuries > Prevention & control
Death, sudden, cardiac
Emergency treatment
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Call Number :RD 97 .E465 2015
Table of Contents:
  • Developing sport safety policies for interscholastic sports
  • Fatal and catastrophic injuries in athletics : epidemiologic data and challenging circumstances
  • Prevention of sudden cardiac death in young athletes
  • Prevention of sudden cardiac death in older athletes
  • Prevention of sudden cardiac death : commotio cordis
  • Exertional heat stroke
  • Brain injuries
  • Cervical spine injury
  • Exertional sickling
  • Traumatic injuries
  • Lightning
  • Asthma
  • Exertional hyponatremia
  • Anaphylaxis, diabetes (autoimmune conditions), hypothermia and altitude (environmentally triggered conditions)
  • Emergency action plans
  • Sport law and sudden death

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