Sports Medicine: Just the Facts
the field are recently graduated fellows and junior clinicians hungry to establish their own reputations in their communities. A ...
SPORTS MEDICINE Just the Facts ...
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Section 1 GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS IN SPORTS MEDICINE 1 THE TEAM PHYSICIAN Christopher Ranney, MD Anthony I Beutler, MD John H Wil ...
•Team physicians often neglect team practices. While it is not necessary that all practices be attended, occa- sional, brief app ...
CHAPTER 1 • THE TEAM PHYSICIAN 3 regarding the player’s condition to those who need to know, coordinates the rehabilitation proc ...
physician recommendations: how long will the player miss class or be in the hospital. They seldom need to know medical or person ...
CHAPTER 2 • ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN SPORTS MEDICINE 5 ethical standards. Sports themselves are considered to reflect values ge ...
employed sports physician’s objective professional duties are compromised by personal interests, e.g., the financial reward of h ...
CHAPTER 2 • ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN SPORTS MEDICINE 7 When a sports physician is employed by a school, team, or similar entit ...
3 LEGAL ISSUES Aaron Rubin, MD, FAAFP, FACSM INTRODUCTION The advice of an attorney should be considered before making any lega ...
CHAPTER 3 • LEGAL ISSUES 9 assistants are also employees of the hospital (Nolan and Nolan-Haley, 1990). DUTIES, ROLE, AND RESPON ...
•Negligence is the predominant theory of liability in med- ical malpractice suits. It requires the following to occur: a. Physic ...
CHAPTER 4 • FIELD-SIDE EMERGENCIES 11 Dispensing medications by individuals not licensed to do so, even if OTC, may not be allo ...
approach taught by ATLS (Committee on Trauma, 1997) and should occur where the athlete is found. They should initially be left i ...
CHAPTER 4 • FIELD-SIDE EMERGENCIES 13 oxygen and transported to a medical facility for fur- ther evaluation and management. OPEN ...
incident may actually have been caused by recent unno- ticed or unwitnessed trauma (Blue and Pecci, 2002 ). Potential injuries, ...
CHAPTER 4 • FIELD-SIDE EMERGENCIES 15 A controversial topic, it is a catastrophic injury that may occur because of a loss of cer ...
HYPHEMA Blood within the anterior chamber, usually owing to trauma, although atraumatic hyphemas may occur in the presence of c ...
CHAPTER 4 • FIELD-SIDE EMERGENCIES 17 SPLENIC/HEPATICINJURY The spleen and liver comprise the two most common organs injured in ...
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