Injury Management Scenarios

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Injury Management Scenarios

• What would you do?

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What would you do?

• You are watching a football game and a player
  goes in for a tackle with his head down. After
  hitting the other player you notice he goes limp
  and is not moving. As you approach the athlete
  you notice he is unconscious, but is breathing
  and as you check you see he has a pulse. What
  steps will you go through before EMS arrives?
  What will EMS do when they get there?

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What would you do?

• At a rugby game a player comes out of the game
  and has a cut on the arm. It is spurting out
  blood. What do you do to stop the bleeding?
  What kind of bleeding is it? What does this tell
  you? After you have this bleeding under control,
  what signs do you tell the athlete to look for
  infection

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What would you do?

• At a soccer game a player goes to kick the ball
  and gets side tackled by an opponent. Upon
  performing a HIPS assessment, you find a major
  deformity on the fibula. Before the ambulance
  arrives you decide to splint the injury, what are
  the steps to proper splinting?

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What would you do?

• Two tennis players are messing around after
  practice and somehow one of them gets hit with a
  tennis racket in the abdomen. The athlete seems
  to be in a lot of pain. What are some signs and
  symptoms you would look for to see if they were
  suffering from internal bleeding? If signs are
  present, what should you do?

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What would you do?

• You are at a hockey game and as a player goes in
  to make a slap shot, another player goes into
  block it and gets hit in the arm with his stick.
  As you approach you can see that it is a compound
  fracture of the humerus and there is a lot of
  blood oozing from the injury. You properly
  splint the humerus, and attempt to control the
  bleeding. He is telling you he feels like he
  needs to throw up and is sweating a lot. What
  can you assume that he is suffering from? What
  other signs do you need to look for? What should
  you do to treat him for this condition?

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What would you do?

• You are in the training room and a basketball
  player comes running in saying a player is down.
  You run out to practice and notice everyone is
  surrounding a player that is convulsing (having a
  seizure). You check his medical history and ask
  his friends is he has epilepsy, they say no and
  there is no record that he has epilepsy on his
  physical form. What should you do to control
  this situation? Should you call EMS?

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What would you do?

• An athlete comes into the training room
  complaining that his new shoes have caused a
  blister and wants to pop it. What should you do?

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What would you do?

• During football two a day practice, a lineman
  approaches you and tells you he does not feel
  well. The athlete seems flushed and his skin is
  very red. When you touch his hand it feels hot
  and dry, and his pulse is very strong and rapid.
  He had a headache and is very dizzy. What is
  this athlete suffering from? What should you do
  to help this athlete? How do you know he is not
  suffering from another heat illness?

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Assignment

• Make up 3 scenarios for injuries, conditions and
  illnesses discussed in this chapter.
• Switch with 3 people and answer their scenarios.