ACEA RUN ROME THE MARATHON A VIRTUOUS MODEL OF SANITARY MANAGEMENT OF THE EVENT

World Athletics and BSO/I-help organizes the ”Race Emergency Medicine Course” in the weekend of the race.

Improving the competence of the healthcare professionals is one of the objectives of World Academy for Endurance Medicine. Healthcare professionals supervise the medical support present at World Athletics events and at other mass events of the world.

World Athletics in partnership with BSO/I-help, sanitary partner of Acea Run Rome The Marathon, will teach the “Race Emergency Medicine Course” on 18th and 19th March, offering to the professional doctors and healthcare professionals the opportunity of improving their knowledge and skills about medical management on the day of the race.

The choice has fallen on Acea Run Rome The Marathon, believed to be a model of virtuous management of the sanitary emergency during the event and that will offer to the members of the course the opportunity of observing and supporting the hosting healthcare professionals in providing medical assistance on the day of the race.

The training objectives include that the end of the course participants will be able to foresee individual risk factors for injuries and diseases that are connected to the race using the base data that are available at the moment of the subscription.

To adopt new approaches to supplement and enforce traditional epide miologic methods.

To delineate the strategies of action to reduce potential risk of fatal accidents during the resistance race.

To explain the base principles of triage.

To assist people who enter the medical tent during an event.

To apply the use of medical algorithms so as to manage injuries and common events occurred during street races.

To delineate a strategy to evaluate the differential diagnosis and to provide with an appropriate treatment the runners who have fainted during or after the resistance event.

To perform the prehospital care treatment for stress heat stroke; to explain the criteria for the diagnosis of stress hyponatremia and its role when performing an appropriate treatment.

To implement the passages of the temperature tracking and/or the heating for hypothermic athletes.