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[chseagle]

Originally Posted by just another ref

I don't know whether anybody signed any kind of waiver or not, but whether they did or didn't, I don't see how that relates to anything in the rule book.

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.

[just another ref]

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.

I don't see anything here about the parent being restricted from coming on the floor or doing anything else.

[chseagle]

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.

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.

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.

[just another ref]

Originally Posted by chseagle

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).

I don't read anything that sounds remotely like that. Treatment is authorized. Nothing is said about the treatment provided by said physicians being exclusive, while on the court or anywhere else.

I am not an attorney, but what I read is basically intended to free all persons related to the team from liability if there is a problem with treatment of the injury.

If Mom and Dad come out and scoop up the kid, I see nothing to prohibit them checking him out on the spot, taking him to the emergency room, or anything in between.