Recommendations for routine sickle cell trait screening for NCAA Division I Athletes.

摘要

You are part of a panel determining recommendations for routine sickle cell trait screening for National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division 1 athletes. In particular, the panel would like your informed opinion whether all Division I athletes should be screened for sickle cell trait. The panel would like your opinion on how you anticipate screening will impact the morbidity and mortality of athletes as well as the impact on cost and lime for appropriate administration of testing. Arguing for the motion that NCAA Division. 1 athletes should be screened for sickle cell trait is Scott A. Anderson, head athletic trainer for the University of Oklahoma and president of the College Athletic Trainers Society. Arguing against the motion, that sickle cell trait testing should not be part of the routine screening for Division I Athletes, is Jeanne Doperak, DO, fellowship director for the Primary Care. Sports Medicine Fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh, head team physician for Seton Hill University and St Vincent College, assistant team physician at Carnegie Mellon University, and physician representative on the board of directors of the Big East Sports Medicine Society.