Enduring Material

• Review the purpose and function of emergency action plans (EAP)
• Discuss the physiology and management of heat and cold related illness
• Explore the physiological adaptations to altitude and management of altitude related illness

• The Children's Health designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.25 Hour(s) NCPD (ANCC Contact Hours). Participants should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
• The Children's Health designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1 Hour(s) Attendance w/ No Credit. Participants should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
• Children’s Health Andrews Institute (BOC AP# P10197) is approved by the Board of Certification, Inc. to provide continuing education to Athletic Trainers. This program is eligible for a maximum of 1.25 Category A hours/CEUs. Athletic Trainers should claim only those hours actually spent in the educational program.
• The Children's Health designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Sports medicine is an evolving discipline in which experience of a multigenerational factor can shed new information and knowledge on how to properly identify, manage and prevent common injury types seen in sports medicine today. This online educational enduring material is designed for athletic trainers. Its purpose is to bridge the gap between the medical knowledge and current practice with evidence-based practice guidelines to achieve optimal patient outcomes through discussions and examinations of interesting, real world cases.

Learning Outcome: As a result of this activity, the learner will identify at least one best practice for assessing and managing a student athlete experiencing heat-, cold-, or altitude-related illness that will enhance, validate, or cause a change in practice.

The Course Director, Troy Smurawa, MD, is an employee of an affiliate of Children's Health and does not have any relevant financial relationships with any ineligible companies to disclose.

The Committee and Planners are employees of Children's Health and do not have any relevant financial relationships with any ineligible companies to disclose.

Jacob Sexton, MD, ATC has no financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients to disclose.

Ben Gloff, PT, DPT and Jeffrey Baggett, ATC, LAT, ATC have no financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients to disclose.

• Children’s Health is accredited by the Texas Medical Association to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
• Children’s Health System of Texas is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

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