Recommendation of arrangement for management of sudden cardiac arrest in athletes:

You might have remembered a couple of year back in a foot ball match a DEMPO (GOA football club) striker lost his life because of sudden cardiac arrest. It followed up with death of another brazilian dying from the same issue this time perhaps from Mohan Bagan. Hence for sports therapists I am urging to go through the Inter-Association Task Force (sponsored by the National Athletic Trainers' Association) consensus recommendations on emergency preparedness and management of sudden cardiac arrest in athletes. Following are the points:
1. Comprehensive emergency planning is needed for high school and college athletic programs to ensure an efficient and structured response to sudden cardiac arrest.
2. Essential elements of an emergency action plan include establishment of an effective communication system, training of anticipated responders in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automated external defibrillators use, access to an automated external defibrillators for early defibrillation, acquisition of necessary emergency equipment, coordination and integration of on-site responder and automated external defibrillators programs with the local emergency medical services system, and practice and review of the response plan.
3. Prompt recognition of sudden cardiac arrest, early activation of the emergency medical services system, the presence of a trained rescuer to initiate cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and access to early defibrillation are critical in the management of sudden cardiac arrest.
4. In any collapsed and unresponsive athlete, sudden cardiac arrest should be suspected and automated external defibrillators applied as soon as possible for rhythm analysis and defibrillation if indicated.

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