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NEW YORK — A high school sports study conducted by the Korey Stringer Institute shows that California ranks near the bottom of states in fully implementing key safety guidelines to protect athletes from potentially life-threatening conditions, including heat stroke.
The scores were based on a state meeting best practice guidelines addressing the four major causes of sudden death for that age group: cardiac arrest, traumatic head injuries, exertional heat stroke and exertional sickling occurring in athletes with sickle-cell trait.
“The (KSI) has chosen to shine a light on certain areas, but it has left others in the dark,” said Blake in a statement released by the CIF.
[...] the information provided today presented an inaccurate and incomplete assessment of what is occurring throughout California.
CIF member schools will need more funding, more (automated external defibrillators), more athletic trainers and more research to help support our efforts to minimizing risk.
KSI is a sports-safety research and advocacy organization located at the University of Connecticut and named after the Vikings’ offensive lineman who died from exertional heat stroke in 2001.
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The scores were based on a state meeting best practice guidelines addressing the four major causes of sudden death for that age group: cardiac arrest, traumatic head injuries, exertional heat stroke and exertional sickling occurring in athletes with sickle-cell trait.
“The (KSI) has chosen to shine a light on certain areas, but it has left others in the dark,” said Blake in a statement released by the CIF.
[...] the information provided today presented an inaccurate and incomplete assessment of what is occurring throughout California.
CIF member schools will need more funding, more (automated external defibrillators), more athletic trainers and more research to help support our efforts to minimizing risk.
KSI is a sports-safety research and advocacy organization located at the University of Connecticut and named after the Vikings’ offensive lineman who died from exertional heat stroke in 2001.
More...