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Medical Legal Issues Facing the Team Physician
David E. Olson, MD ACSM Team Physician Course
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Objectives
• Identify some team physician at risk activities
• Identify some helpful strategies to prevent medicolegal issues
• Discuss current legislation being proposed to Congress
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Conflict of Interest
• None
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Key Areas
• Preparticipation Examinations • Determination of Eligibility • Evaluation of On-Field Issues • Information Disclosure • Licensed to Practice While Traveling
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Litigation
• From 1970-1985 • 25 claims were filed due to athletic
related head and neck injuries • $45.8 million was awarded, $38.7
million from 1980-85 • This was the time when the rate of
head and neck injuries were at a rapid decline
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Team Physician Consensus Statement
• Know the Team Physician Consensus Statement
• Use it as a practice guideline • Helps Keep you our of Medicolegal
Trouble • Updated yearly
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Preparticipation Examinations
• In 2005 7,018,709 high school students participated in team sports
• In 2001; 355,688 college and university sponsored athletes
• Goal is to transfer liability from the school to the medical practitioner.
• Allows for less expensive sport liability coverage
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PPE
• Cardiac Disease is most concerning – No true consensus on best PPE exam – Can still miss silent killers – False positive results – Cost versus life saved
• ECG, Echo, history, auscultation
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PPE
• Follow a standard exam form and practice
• Office PPE are better at detecting subtle findings
• Some states provide immunity if volunteering the service
• Verify with malpractice carrier prior to performing PPE’s at office or at schools that you are covered
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Eligibility
– Unclear standards – Different amounts of risk accepted at
different institutions – Specialist input will limit liability
• Helps to show team physician was acting in best interest of the athlete
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Eligibility
• Disqualification may trigger a suit – Pahulu vs University of Kansas
• Transient Quadriplegia • Defendents prevailed the claim of
discrimination – Knapp vs Northwestern University
• Implanted defibrillator • Cited Bethesda Guidelines and dismissed
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Eligibility Gray Areas
• Concussions • Spinal Stenosis • Cardiac Conditions • Heat Illness
• FOLLOW Consensus statement
guidelines or be prepared to defend your decision
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Documentation
• Training rooms are busy and not usually organized like a medical office
• Easy to miss documentation • Games are worse • Preoperative consent to include all
possible variations of the procedure • Signed waivers written in simple
language may help limit liability but not completely eliminate
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Negligent Content 4 elements
• Duty of care extending to those who may sustain injury by the physician’s conduct
• A breach of this duty must be shown (Standard of Care)
• The breach must cause injury to the party
• There must be some damage or harm to the injured party
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Emergency Action Plan
• Kleinknecht vs Gettysburg College – Fatal cardiac arrest during an off season
practice – The US Third Circuit held that the
university must have an appropriate medical emergency response plan and provide reasonable emergency care to an injure athlete.
– The birth of the Emergency Action Plan
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EAP
• Outline precise steps to be taken in an emergency
• Responsibility of staff • First Aid/CPR • Summoning emergency personnel • Should review at least annually and
practice care • Should cover all areas of athletic
participation – Practices, events, training room
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HIPAA
• Have signed releases to give athlete medical information – Athletic Trainers – Coaches – Parents – Staff members – Media
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Travel
• Do you have a license to practice where you are at?
• Who is in your travel party? • Are you transporting controlled
substances? – (narcotic pain medications, sedatives,
etc)
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FDA Transport of Controlled Substances • Illegal activity to transport across
state lines • Current policy of Big Ten that we no
longer travel with controlled substances
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Medical Licensure
• Safe Havens – AR, CA, CO, CT, DE, IN, IA, KY, MN, MS,
MT, NH, NC, UT, VA, WA, WY – Allow for coverage of sport related travel
party
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Stay Within The Travel Party
• Covering a travel party friend or school donor can put you at risk both from a licensure and malpractice situation
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Current Legislation
• US House Bill 3722 • In review in both the House Judiciary
Committee and Energy and Commerce Committee
• Would extend malpractice and other legal protections to sports medicine physcians and certified athletic trainers who are traveling across state lines with their team.
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Thank You
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References
• Kane Steven M and White Richard A. “Medical Malpractice and the Sports Medicine Clinician.” Clin Orthop Relat Res. (2009)467:412-419
• Viola Tracey, Carlson Chad, Trojian Thomas H and Anderson Jeffrey. “A survey of state medical licensing boards: can the travelling team physcian practice in your state?” Br J Sports Med. 2013:47:60-62.
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References
• Pearsall Albert W, Kavaleski John E and Madanagopal Sudhakar G. “Medicolegal Issues Affecting Sports Medicine Practicioners.” Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research. 2005:433:50-57.