Recommendations for the Emergency Department Prevention of Sport-Related Concussion
Author Department
Emergency Medicine
Document Type
Article, Peer-reviewed
Publication Date
7-2019
Abstract
Sport-related concussion refers to the subset of concussive injuries occurring during sport activities. Similar to concussion from nonsport mechanisms, sport-related concussion is associated with significant morbidity, including migrainous headaches, disruption in normal daily activities, and long-term depression and cognitive deficits. Unlike nonsport concussions, sport-related concussion may be uniquely amenable to prevention efforts to mitigate these problems. The emergency department (ED) visit for sport-related concussion represents an opportunity to reduce morbidity by timely diagnosis and management using best practices, and through education and counseling to prevent a subsequent sport-related concussion. This article provides recommendations to reduce sport-related concussion disability through primary, secondary, and tertiary preventive strategies enacted during the ED visit. Although many recommendations have a solid evidence base, several research gaps remain. The overarching goal of improving sport-related concussion outcome through enactment of ED-based prevention strategies needs to be explicitly studied.
Recommended Citation
Bazarian JJ, Raukar N, Devera G, Ellis J, Feden J, Gemme SR, Hafner J, Mannix R, Papa L, Wright DW, Auerbach P; American College of Emergency Physicians Sport-Related Head Injury Prevention Task Force. Recommendations for the Emergency Department Prevention of Sport-Related Concussion. Ann Emerg Med. 2019 Jul 17.
PMID
31326205