Coach's of student student atheletes with asthma may not be prepared to help children during an asthma attack according to a research abstract presented at the meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians.
If you have a child with asthma, you expect that teachers and coaches are prepared to step in and help your child when needed, but researchers from Winthrop University Hospital and Stony Brook University in New York found that only 35% of coaches felt they had adequate training to be prepared for an asthma emergency. Half of coaches could not recall any asthma symptoms of asthma and 25% could name only one asthma symptom. Less than half of coaches said they were notified of a student self-medicating asthma symptoms and more than 70% said they had no available medical assistance during practice or games.
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Isn’t it a scary statistics? Having a child with asthma, we expect that teachers and coaches are prepared to step in and help the child when needed.