What Kansas Metropolis-area districts do to stop sports activities accidents

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas and Missouri Excessive College Athletic Associations haven’t any particular necessities about having medical employees or gear on-site sporting occasions.

Nonetheless, they do require all coaches to be skilled in CPR, in addition to coaching on easy methods to use a defibrillator.

They encourage faculties to go a step additional and rent full-time athletic trainers.

Dr. David Smith is the youth sports activities program medical director on the College of Kansas Well being System, which is contracted to supply athletic trainers for a number of native college districts.

Smith says they are often lifesavers skilled for nearly any form of sports activities damage, however they cannot be all over the place.

He says generally they’re solely in a position to go to high-risk varsity occasions and practices, and that rural districts cannot all the time afford them.

“When you’ve gotten a better degree of damage, or within the case like we noticed final evening the place it is a probably catastrophic downside, it is very nice to have somebody medically skilled and prepared for that,” he stated.

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