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**This is a sample Emergency Action Plan meant to be used as a guide to help you develop a
venue-specific plan for your school. Please use the blank spaces and bolded notes to help fill
in details that are unique to your school’s athletic venues. Please provide your school’s
Emergency Action Plan to all coaches, administrators, adult volunteers, etc involved in
interscholastic athletics. This plan should also be reviewed and updated annually as needed
and shall be posted in a conspicuous location. **
(Insert School Name Here)
Emergency Action Plan
________________School has a written emergency plan that should be followed in the event of a
medical emergency. All coaches should be familiar with this document and their role and
responsibility in an emergency. Any questions should be directed to the head athletic trainer (or
school administrator, in the absence of a licensed athletic trainer).
An emergency is the need for Emergency Medical Services (EMS) to give further medical attention
and/or transport an athlete to the hospital. It is important in these situations that coordination
between the athletic trainer, coaches, administrators and student responders be effective. This guide
is intended to delineate roles and outline the protocol to be followed should an emergency occur.
Situations when 911 should be called are:
- an athlete is not breathing
- an athlete has lost consciousness
- it is suspected that an athlete may have a neck or back injury
- an athlete has an open fracture (bone has punctured through the skin)
- severe heat exhaustion or suspected heat stroke
- severe bleeding that cannot be stopped
Chain of Command
Team Physician
Certified Athletic Trainer
School Resource Officer
Athletic Director
Administrator
Head Coach
Assistant Coach
Sports Medicine Student Assistant
Other Athletes
The highest person in the chain of command who is present at a scene will be the designated person
in charge, or leader. That person is responsible for deciding whether or not to call 911, instructing
others how they may be of help and will be the person who stays with the athlete until EMS arrives.
Once it has been decided that EMS should be called, the following protocol should be followed:
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