title: Pediatric sports emergencies.
abstract: This article reviewed the major categories of sports-related medical emergencies in young athletes. Sports participation is a healthy and generally safe activity for child and adolescent athletes, and should be encouraged by health care providers. Thankfully, medical emergencies are rare events during youth [figure: see text] sports participation. When these events occur, however, prompt recognition and appropriate treatment are of tremendous importance.
authors.affiliation: Division of Emergency Medicine, Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. stracciolini@a1.tch.harvard.edu
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Stracciolini
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Metzl
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001265:Athletic Injuries / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004630:Emergencies / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D008404:Massachusetts / Q000453:epidemiology