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- Title
Preventing Exertional Death in Military Trainees: Recommendations and Treatment Algorithms From a Multidisciplinary Working Group.
- Authors
Webber, Bryant J.; Casa, Douglas J.; Beutler, Anthony I.; Nye, Nathaniel S.; Trueblood, Wesley E.; O’Connor, Francis G.; O'Connor, Francis G
- Abstract
Despite aggressive prevention programs and strategies, nontraumatic exertional sudden death events in military training continue to prove a difficult challenge for the Department of Defense. In November 2014, the 559th Medical Group at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, hosted a working group on sudden exertional death in military training. Their objectives were three-fold: (1) determine best practices to prevent sudden exertional death of military trainees, (2) determine best practices to establish safe and ethical training environments for military trainees with sickle cell trait, and (3) develop field-ready algorithms for managing military trainees who collapse during exertion. This article summarizes the major findings and recommendations of the working group.
- Subjects
UNITED States; TRAINING of military personnel; MILITARY education; SICKLE cell trait; HYPERTROPHIC cardiomyopathy; MYOCARDITIS; SUDDEN death prevention; PHYSIOLOGICAL adaptation; ALGORITHMS; CAUSES of death; EXERCISE; MEDICAL protocols; MILITARY medicine; PHYSICAL fitness; MILITARY personnel
- Publication
Military Medicine, 2016, Vol 181, Issue 4, p311
- ISSN
0026-4075
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.7205/MILMED-D-15-00299