TY - JOUR
T1 - Ready, set, go! Sports medicine on and off the field
AU - Leonard, James C.
AU - Townsend, Heidi E.
PY - 1996/5
Y1 - 1996/5
N2 - Team and event physicians can play an important role in ensuring the medical safety of a sports event by several actions: analyzing common injuries particular to a sport and planning accordingly in terms of equipment and procedures, establishing a hierarchy of the team's staff (ie, who has the authority to take a player out of the game), organizing medical equipment, establishing communication among the support personnel, considering crowd-control techniques for large events, arranging accessible transportation to a nearby medical facility, and being alert to possible dangerous weather conditions. Athletes will be safer, physicians more secure, and sports events more successful if these precautions are primary.
AB - Team and event physicians can play an important role in ensuring the medical safety of a sports event by several actions: analyzing common injuries particular to a sport and planning accordingly in terms of equipment and procedures, establishing a hierarchy of the team's staff (ie, who has the authority to take a player out of the game), organizing medical equipment, establishing communication among the support personnel, considering crowd-control techniques for large events, arranging accessible transportation to a nearby medical facility, and being alert to possible dangerous weather conditions. Athletes will be safer, physicians more secure, and sports events more successful if these precautions are primary.
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U2 - 10.1080/00325481.1996.11946129
DO - 10.1080/00325481.1996.11946129
M3 - Article
C2 - 8650089
AN - SCOPUS:0029975333
SN - 0032-5481
VL - 99
SP - 237
EP - 244
JO - Postgraduate medicine
JF - Postgraduate medicine
IS - 5
ER -