From Sideline to ER: How Interprofessional Teams Improve Sports Emergency Care with Dr. Chuck Mason

[00:00:02] Speaker A: Welcome to the @pit crew podcast. This high energy show dives deep into the world of sports emergency care. Join us as we explore cutting edge strategies, real world experiences and expert insights to help you step up your game in emergency care. We've got the tools, tips and stories you need to be ready when seconds matter. It's time for the @pit crew podcast. We have the green light in three, two, one. [00:00:32] Speaker B: Welcome to the @pit crew podcast. I'm Ray Castle, host and pleasure. Today we're here in Arkansas for the Arkansas Interprofessional Sports Emergency Care course. Pleased to have Dr. Chuck Mason. Welcome, Dr. Dr. Mason. [00:00:44] Speaker C: Thank you. [00:00:45] Speaker B: Dr. Mason is an emergency room physician with Cabot Emergency Hospital. He also serves as the medical director for Metro ems, which services the greater Little Rock area. Welcome to. Welcome to us today. [00:00:56] Speaker C: Thank you very much. [00:00:57] Speaker B: So just want to do a couple lightning round questions. We were talking a while ago. You have been practicing emergency medicine for more than two or three years. Almost. [00:01:07] Speaker C: Almost four. [00:01:08] Speaker B: I don't want to say that. Let you say that instead. But anyway, you've seen the, like the focus today. What you've seen here with this course, it's about probably the biggest key thing I've, I've seen so far is the, is the importance of interprofessional communication and, and learning roles and how we can support each other. Is that pretty. [00:01:28] Speaker C: I see that. But also it's education. You have to understand that a lot of folks are not exposed to the important little pieces of information that you're spilling out. You know what to look for, how to find it. You know how to disseminate that information amongst everybody so that when that event does happen, then everybody knows what has. [00:01:52] Speaker B: To happen well in advance. [00:01:54] Speaker C: Well in advance. [00:01:55] Speaker B: It doesn't sit on a bookshelf. It has to be a living doc emergency acting as you. I know you know very well it's a living document. It's reviewed constant. Probably y' all do that every two years. Definite comprehensive review. [00:02:08] Speaker C: This is an ongoing situation. Right. Education is so important because if you don't educate these people year after year after year, you know, it's like growing, growing a garden and after a while you just get a bunch of weeds and you got to come back, start all over again. Same thing here. If you don't put the information out, get everybody to learn it, you will never, you know, have enough consensus to be able to take care of it. [00:02:34] Speaker B: Yeah, I like to learn. Is that you don't. You can't grow in a silo. So that's just what we're trying to do is even though you may be in one part of the state, you know, you're still working through similar systems. It may not have different resources. I like to refer to as a lean environment, especially for schools. It may not have resources and leaning on ems, local ems. And that's I know that having worked with the EMS system in Louisiana, you have a similar protocol. You know what's being done. It doesn't change a lot in getting people on the same board to work with, make it streamline as possible for handoffs. [00:03:09] Speaker C: And today technology really has made things a lot easier. Everything's data driven, you know, so we know what works and what doesn't work. So whether it's a related illness or concussion, you know, we know the stuff that has to be taken. There's tools available. We just have to make everybody aware. This is what's there, this is what you got to use and these are the next steps to take. [00:03:36] Speaker B: So one, one last quick question I like to do periodically is what's a fun fact about Dr. Mason? We may not know. [00:03:43] Speaker C: Dr. Mason is probably more farm boy than oh really? [00:03:46] Speaker B: Okay, good deal. [00:03:47] Speaker C: So you ask my wife. I probably spend more time on the track. [00:03:50] Speaker B: Nothing wrong with it. I grew up in North Louisiana on a farm raising cattle. So we, we could probably talk for days on end. Anyway, thank you so much for all you do. Thank you for joining us today and being here and being on a lab and we're getting ready to join the lab in a couple minutes. We're going to Dr. Mason and I, we're going to be co leading a lab on exertional heat illness management. So we're going to go through steps we can do to handle in the field before EMS and moving it over to EMS in the emergency room. So thank you very much. Yeah, it will be fun. Have a good day. Thank you. 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