Bicycles, Bats, Balls, and Trauma Calls – Kids with sports injuries
This session will help Prehospital Care Practitioners better understand sports injuries that occur in neighborhood ballparks. During this session, we will look at some of the most common types of sports injuries to children and teenagers from Little League through High School. We will review how children are often injured while riding bicycles, skateboarding, and playing baseball, basketball, football, and soccer.
We will discuss the treatment for sprains, strains, and injuries caused by repetitive sports. We will also discuss sports-related trauma calls such as fractures, head injuries, and blunt trauma.
We will also discuss common injuries and medical emergencies that occur in the parking lots, grandstands, and bathrooms including cardiac arrest, assaults, and anaphylaxis. We will discuss both BLS and ALS treatment for specific sports injuries.