Course Description: This course covers some current hot topics and trends in sports medicine that pertain to football.  Topics including performance enhancing substances, abdominal injuries, subdural hematoma, and other things that keep you up at night.  This course adds a nice discussion on various surgical cases while getting insight from various physicians.  One unique part about this course is the final panel discussion where we bring thought leaders together to go over game day sport medicine protocols in various settings.  It is a great collaboration between the sports medicine team.  
  

Course Objectives:

1. Recognize current medical issues and understand the various treatments of everyday occurrence in sports medicine.  

2. Discuss performance enhancing substances and how to discuss with athletes

3. Identify internal abdominal injuries and best management plan and treatment 

4. Discuss the importance of game day protocols and having emergency plans prepared

Disclosure: Faculty Disclosures. No planners of this activity have any relevant relationships with commercial interests to disclose.

Course Outline:

1. Performance enhancing substances
   1. Taken to improve
      • Strength
      • Performance
      • Appearance
   2. Anabolic Steroids
      • Dangers
      • Addressing the problem – Education
2.  Internal Abdominal Injuries
   1. Most common
      • Spleen
      • Kidney
   2. Rare and extremely Rare
      • Liver
      • Small intestine
      • Blood vessels
   3. Case examples of various injuries
3. Psychological issues related to Injury
   1. Recognize
   2. Be aware
   3. Mental health resources
4. What keeps me up at night
   1. Second impact syndrome
   2. Subdural hematoma
   3. Posterior proximal clavicle dislocation
   4. MVA/CRIME
   5. Suicide
   6. Mental health issues
   7. Compartment syndrome
5. Surgical Case studies Game Day Sport Medicine Protocols

Participants have no equipment or materials required to take this education course.

Accreditation:

Physicians:  

Baptist Health Care is accredited by the Florida Medical Association to provide continuing medical education for physicians. 

Baptist Health Care designates this live activity for a maximum of (2.25) hour in AMA PRA Category I creditTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses & Occupational Therapists (Florida):

Baptist Hospital, CE Broker provider # 50-183 approves this program for 2.25 hours credit for nurses and occupational therapists.  

Athletic Trainers 

Andrews Research & Education Foundation P10024 is approved by the Board of Certification, Inc. to provide continuing education to Athletic Trainers. This program is eligible for a maximum of 2.25 Category A hours/CEUs. ATs should claim only those hours actually spent in the educational program.