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Originally Posted by chseagle
Here's what the general wording is on the Medical Emergency Authorization/Consent to treat form (thois text is from the sample form off the WIAA Website):
"As Parent or Legal Guardian, I authorize the team physician or, in his absence, a qualified physician to examine the above-named student and in the event of injury to administer emergency care and to arrange for any consultation by a specialist, including a surgeon, he deems necessary to insure proper care of any injury. Every effort will be made to contact parent or guardian to explain the nature of the problem prior to any involved treatment."
I know in WIAA Athletics, any person involved as a participant has to have this form on file with school before being allow to compete. In some school districts, I believe this also involves practices.
Additional on this form, the emergency contact info is required as well as the name of the physician responsible for the primary care of the student-athlete.
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Originally Posted by just another ref
I don't see anything here about the parent being restricted from coming on the floor or doing anything else.
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How I am reading the way the form is written, basically as long as the student-athlete is on the field/court for competition then all medical decisions are left up to the medical personnel present. Only after the student-athlete is off the field/court, can a parent become involved (basically behind the scenes).
Depending on the severity of the injury, the student-athlete will sit out the rest of that game, & then the next day the parent takes the student-athlete in to see their PCP.
How should a floor official react in a situation like the articles below, if a parent came out onto the floor?
Texas A&M's Derrick Roland injury video hits web as Aggies senior suffers gruesome injury
Texas A&M Aggies' Derrick Roland suffers gruesome broken leg - ESPN
Basically it sounds like from the various responses & the reaction of the parent(s) the response would vary.