1. American College of Sports Medicine Roundtable on Exertional Heat Stroke -- Return to Duty/Return to Play: Conference Proceedings.
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O'Connor, Francis G., Casa, Douglas J., Bergeron, Michael F., Carter III, Robert, Deuster, Patricia, Heled, Yuval, Kark, John, Leon, Lisa, McDermott, Brendon, O'Brien, Karen, Roberts, William O., and Sawka, Michael
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CONFERENCES & conventions ,SPORTS injuries - Abstract
On October 22-23, 2008, an ACSM Roundtable was convened at the Uniformed Services University (Bethesda, MD) to discuss return-to-play or return-to-duty for people who have experienced exertional heat illness (EHI) and to develop consensus-based recommendations. The conference assembled experts from the civilian sports medicine community and the Department of Defense to discuss relevant EHI issues, such as potential long-term consequences, the concept of thermo tolerance, and the role of thermal tolerance testing in return-to-play decisions. Although the group was unable to move forward with new consensus recommendations, they clearly documented critical clinical concerns and scientific questions, including the following: 1) no uniform core definitions of EHI; 2) limited validated criteria to assess recovery from exertional heat stroke (EHS); and 3) inadequate ability to predict who may be predisposed to a subsequent heat injury after EHS. Areas of potential future research are identified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
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