KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The highschool athletic associations of Kansas and Missouri don’t have any particular necessities concerning the group of medical personnel or tools for on-site sporting occasions.
Nevertheless, they require all coaches to be educated in CPR in addition to coaching in using a defibrillator.
They encourage faculties to go one step additional and rent full-time athletic trainers.
Dr. David Smith is the medical director of the youth sports activities program on the College of Kansas Well being System, which is contracted to offer athletic trainers for a number of native faculty districts.
Smith says they are often educated rescuers for nearly any sort of sports activities harm, however they cannot be in every single place.
He says they’re generally solely in a position to go to high-level college occasions and practices, and that rural districts cannot at all times afford it.
“When you’ve got a better stage of harm, or within the case that we noticed final evening, the place it is a doubtlessly catastrophic downside, it is very nice to have someone medically ready and prepared for that,” he stated.
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