IV Utilization or Access by Licensed Athletic Trainer in the Clinical Setting
Journal Title: Sports and Exercise Medicine – Open Journal - Year 2018, Vol 4, Issue 1
Abstract
Imagine being out at a sports practice, it’s hot and humid and the team is in its preseason conditioning program. One of your athletes observes profuse sweating, dizziness, decreased motor function. In addition, this athlete has a history of sickle-cell trait and is starting to cramp in their lower extremities. We remove them from practice and move them to a cool indoor environment. We start administering oxygen and activate our emergency action plan (EAP) and called emergency medical services (EMS), but it will be 20 minutes or so to travel to the campus. What else can we do? We apply ice bags to the lower extremities, we cool the athlete and administer water and electrolytes orally and we wait and wait until EMS gets there.
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Benito J. Velasquez
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- DOI 10.17140/SEMOJ-4-e004
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