Sports Medicine Emergency Management (SMEM)
"If it is predictable, it is manageable"
"In times of stress, you will always fall to the level of your training, not rise to the level of your expectations!"
Welcome to SMEM
With greater than 75 years of clinical, administrative, and educational experience in the fields of athletic training / sports medicine, EMS, law enforcement, and tactical EMS, we can design and deliver a unique custom program built specifically to your needs and program goals. SMEM is approved by the Board of Certification, Inc. (BOC) to offer continuing education for Certified Athletic Trainers (BOC AP#: P10229) and all of our programs are eligible for Category-A CEUs for Athletic Trainers.
SMEM Core Values are the driving force behind a successful training program through a supportive training environment.
Practice
Using a Crawl / Walk, Jog, Run developmental program SMEM designs individual training programs to establish baseline skills acquisition before advancing to more complex skills integration
Train
As Health Care providers at all levels work together, we must be challenged together in safe spaces to allow for skills development and management techniques of critically injured patients.
Rehearse
Policies & Procedures are the foundation of our Emergency Action Plans. Its important that we practice what we preach, so we challenge Teams to work through what they think they will do to ensure it matches what they say they will do in an actual emergency!
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
Sports Medicine Emergency Management provides hands‐on, competency‐based skills training and scenario‐based practical skills integration simulations that are sport, personnel, venue, and setting specific.
Our programs allow athletic trainers the opportunity to review and perfect the low-frequency but high-fidelity emergency care skills that are often needed in a critical incident.
We can combine pre‐study / virtual didactic modules with in‐person, competency‐based, hands‐on practical skills training, and scenario‐based practical skills integration simulations for participants.
Participants will be able to review, practice, train, and rehearse their emergency action plans and critical incident management skills and protocols in an interdisciplinary fashion.
Participants will be provided a “benign environment” to train in a practical simulated manner free of judgement, but inclusive of objective feedback, evidence‐informed and best practice recommendations, and experiences from nationally recognized clinical faculty across multiple disciplines.
Programs can also certify / re‐certify in American Red Cross CPR / AED for the Professional Rescuer, BLS, First Aid / AED / CPR, and/or Emergency Medical Responder (EMR) with appropriate add‐on modules (i.e. oxygen administration, epinephrine auto‐injector, asthma, first aid for severe bleeding (FAST), etc.).
Participants will be able to debrief as an interdisciplinary team and modify protocols as they see fit.
All in‐person training will be done on‐site and using emergency and athletic equipment that will regularly be used throughout the season.
All programs will utilize medium-fidelity full-body manikins that provide in-time feedback and performance metrics, task specific trainers, as well as sports specific equipment and garments that can be cut to achieve critical care task goals and objectives.
SMEM will provide ALL manikins and medical supplies needed to carry out the program except for team specific items that each team will have on the sidelines (i.e. vacuum splints, spine board, team emergency kits, emergency transport vehicle) and EMS equipment (i.e. patient monitor, oxygen, ambulance cot, etc.).
SMEM will manage all aspects of the program registration, day of program sign‐in, and post‐program assessment, evaluation, and Board of Certification, Inc. credentialing for athletic trainers.
An after‐action summary can be provided with identified strengths to be maintained and built upon and identified potential areas and recommendations for continued improvement.
Skills training
Program Objectives‐
At the end of the program, participants will be able to:
Identify and demonstrate the role of an athletic trainer within the interdisciplinary healthcare team to improve patient outcomes.
Identify the role(s), characteristics, indications, contraindications, and precautions for managing the entire scene by relating critical interventions with scientific background for improved patient survival & implementing appropriate management techniques and agents in the prehospital setting.
Demonstrate the proper sequence and implementation of critical decision‐making skills.
Demonstrate effective skills related to emergency care, including, but not limited to, CPR, AED, emergency airway management & ventilation, orthopedic injury management, head injury & cervical spine injury management, truncal trauma, medical emergencies (e.g. diabetic, asthma, anaphylaxis, abdominal injury, etc.), and/or mental health crisis management.
Describe techniques for implementing various emergency skills within the realm of athletic training settings.