Standard Principles of Resuscitation & Trauma in Sport (SPoRTS) course

€425.00 p/p

2- Days

The responsibility of the pitch-side medical team has never been higher. Health care professionals are under more and more scrutiny in terms of skill maintenance and professional development. The pitch-side clinical team have a duty of care to the athlete/player, along with a responsibility to update and improve their own clinical knowledge and skills. We believe in an integrated approach where Health care professionals from all levels and backgrounds practice and learn together - The SPoRTS course is aimed at those Health Care Professionals who don’t deal with critical care situations every day is designed to practice within a non-threatening learning environment to assess and perform immediate life saving interventions or to prepare the critically unwell athlete/player for safe transfer to hospital.

Course Details

The course is designed to help the candidate recognise the critically ill or injured athlete/player; develop practical skills and co-ordinate a pitch-side team to provide secure and appropriate packaging and to organise safe transfer.

Aims
• To standardise the level of pitch-side Immediate care of Health Care Professionals involved with all sporting events
• To promote confidence when dealing with the potentially critically injured athletes on the field of play
• To provide a forum for sharing of knowledge and CPD within peers

Format
• Key lectures                                • Skill stations
• Scenarios                                    • Discussions
• Team work

Lectures/Discussions

• Initial Assessment of the injures athlete/player     • Spinal injury management principles
• Match day planning

Skills

• Management of an on-field cardiac arrest      • Life Threatening injuries
• Packaging & Moving injured players               • Head Injuries & Concussion
• Musculo-skeletal injuries & immobilisation     • Head Injury assessment
• Airway management                                       • Spinal injuries & clearing the spine
 
Rapid Practice Scenarios (RPS)
• 15-minute team-based scenarios based on real world settings -

• The RPS are aimed at conslidating the core teachnical and non-technical skills required of the pitch-side medic

Candidate Criteria

Pitch-side Immediate Care course for all Health Care Professionals actively or looking to become involved in sports

Course Format

• Guideline lecture
• Discussions
• Skill stations
• Scenarios
• Working in teams
• Small group work
• Equipment familiarisation
• Competency-based assessment
• Blended learning
• Problem-based learning