700 ave Michel Jasmin

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This course is in English

Prerequisite: Health Care Professional

The First Responder course is universally recognized as the entry level provider certification within the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) system.

This intensive course certifies the sports medicine responder with a standardized level of basic emergency care as a ‘First Responder.’

The responder integrates within the scope of their local EMS system, allowing better access, communication and collaboration during the preparation for, and execution of emergency medical interventions in the sports milieu.

Text: The new Canadian Red Cross ‘Emergency Care Manual’ text book is included with certification registration. Students will also receive (or be able to download) the SFR manual (200+ pages with constant updates) and other SFR materials on the SFR Coursekit website (registered students only).

Certification: Canadian Red Cross certification at level of: First Responder, CPR/AED-Health Care Provider, Epinephrine Administration (Quebec). National certification includes wall certificate, wallet card and First Responder badges.

Course fee: $500 ($250 due upon registration, $250 due at start of course)

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395 boul Jessop

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This course is in French

Prerequisite: Health Care Professional

The First Responder course is universally recognized as the entry level provider certification within the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) system.

This intensive course certifies the sports medicine responder with a standardized level of basic emergency care as a ‘First Responder.’

The responder integrates within the scope of their local EMS system, allowing better access, communication and collaboration during the preparation for, and execution of emergency medical interventions in the sports milieu.

Text: The new Canadian Red Cross ‘Emergency Care Manual’ text book is included with certification registration. Students will also receive (or be able to download) the SFR manual (200+ pages with constant updates) and other SFR materials on the SFR Coursekit website (registered students only).

Certification: Canadian Red Cross certification at level of: First Responder, CPR/AED-Health Care Provider, Epinephrine Administration (Quebec). National certification includes wall certificate, wallet card and First Responder badges.

Course fee: $550 ($275 due upon registration, $275 due at start of course)

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1720 boul Cure Poirier

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Please check our Calendar regularly for the latest course dates for Sports First Responder Certification and Re-Certification.

John Boulay, B.Sc, EMT, CAT(C), D.O.   Certified Athletic Therapist/EMT/ Osteopath

Certified Athletic Therapist with more than 25 years of prehospital experience in EMS and sports medicine. Instructor of “Advanced Emergency Care in Sport” at Concordia University, guest instructor University of Sherbrooke, presenter at national conferences. Emergency care consultant to professional and amateur sports, performing arts including Cirque de Soleil touring shows. National team therapist for Judo Canada and Quebec (1985-2009). Founding president and a current director of the Quebec Sports Medicine Council.

Pertinent certifications include: Certified Instructor-Trainer: SFR, First Responder, EMR, CPR, AED, EPI, past PHTLS-Instructor.

Major games experience include:

• Olympic Games: 2010 Vancouver (core)
• 2004 Athens (nso), 2000 Sydney (core)
• Paralympics: 1996 Atlanta (core)
• FISU: 1995  Japan (core)
• Francophone Games: 2001 Ottawa, 1997 Madagascar (CT), 1989 Morocco
• Commonwealth Games: 2002 Manchester
• PanAm Games: 2007 Rio de Janiero (CT), 2003 Santo Domingo (CT), 1999 Winnipeg
• Macabiah Games: 1993 Israel

Gary McHugh, EMT-P, ACP       Advanced Care Paramedic

Advanced Care Paramedic with over 30 years of prehospital experience in EMS. Educator for various programs including John Abbott College Paramedic, Urgences Sante (Montreal EMS), and municipal first responder systems. Gary is an currently an Advanced Care Paramedic in the Montreal EMS system (Urgences Sante).

Pertinent certifications include: Certified Instructor-Trainer: First Responder/ Emergency Medical Responder/ CPR-AED and an instructor in ACLS and  PHTLS.

CHRISTINE WALLER B.Sc. CAT(C), EMT-P   Certified Athletic Therapist / Paramedic

B.Sc. Concordia University: Exercise science; specialized in Athletic Therapy
First Graduating class from Pre Hospital Emergency Care (John Abbott)
Worked with Concordia, Bishops, McGill University teams and John Abbott CEGEP teams.   Primary care paramedic for Urgences Sante. Lifeguard background

Pertinent certifications include: Certified Instructor: CPR, EPI, SFR, EMR

VÉRONIQUE RIVERIN B.Sc. CAT(C) , CSCC Certified Athletic Therapist

Véronique is a Certified Athletic Therapist and Certified Strength and Conditioning Coach working with athletes of all levels. She has worked with Cirque Du Soleil, Pedal Against Cancer, cycling across Canada team and National Hard Karate Team. She is also a First Responder / Emergency Medical Responder Instructor for the Canadian Red Cross and teaches the Sport First Responder program alongside the team at Osteo-Med Sport.

Pertinent Certifications include: Heart and Stroke Foundation: CPR/First Aid/AED Instructor Canadian Red Cross: FR,  Emergency Medical Responder Instructor, PHTLS Certified

With the state’s recent snowfall, the Utah Department of Health (UDOH) wants to remind the public to stay safe as they enjoy the winter outdoors.

In 2009, 440 Utahns – or more than eight people every week – were hospitalized or died from a sports or recreation-related traumatic brain injury (TBI). Ten percent of these TBIs were due to snow sports like skiing and snowboarding, sledding, ice skating, and snowmobiling.

Dr. Robert Cantu and Christopher Nowinski shared their findings on “The Impact of Concussions in Youth and College Sports” with the Williams College community.

The discussion covered the latest research on the prevention, management, and consequences of head injuries, with a particular focus on youth and collegiate sports. Cantu and Nowinski are associated with the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy at Boston University and together co-founded the Sports Legacy Institute. The New York Times, The New Yorker, Sports Illustrated, and 60 Minutes have profiled the duo’s work on the effect of sports-related head trauma on the brain and cognition.

In addition to serving as a clinical professor and co-director at the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy at Boston University School of Medicine, Cantu is associated with several hospitals’ neurology departments, including Emerson Hospital in Concord, Mass., and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Mass. He also consults with numerous NFL, NHL, and NBA teams, has authored more than 325 scientific publications, and is involved with numerous research and advocacy organizations concerned with sports-related head injuries.

Nowinski debuted as a character in World Wrestling Entertainment programming in 2002 after an All-Ivy football career at Harvard University, but was forced to retire from his wrestling career in 2004 because of a concussion. Since this time, Nowinski has advocated for greater awareness among parents, coaches, medical professionals, and children about sports-related head trauma.

Corporate sponsorships, nationally televised games, minute-by-minute coverage on sports websites — for players, parents and coaches, high school football has never been bigger. But is enough being done to ensure players’ safety as the intensity of the sport grows? In Football High, FRONTLINE investigates the new face of high school football.

Football observers and sports journalists alike agree that on average, high school players’ size, speed and strength have increased dramatically over the past five to 10 years. At Euless Trinity in Texas, which has been ranked the No. 1 high school team in the country, 18 of the 89 varsity players weigh over 250 pounds. “The ramping up of pressure on high school kids … and the increase of media attention on high school football, my God, in the last 10 years, it’s become like a little NFL,” says Gregg Easterbrook, a writer and columnist for ESPN. “If you look at it position by position, you can only compare it to NFL teams,” says trainer Kelvin Williams. “It’s just crazy. They are huge.”

FRONTLINE centers its investigation in Arkansas, where two players collapsed from heatstroke last year while practicing during one of the hottest summers on record. The players were placed in the same intensive care unit in Little Rock, both having suffered extensive damage to their internal organs. One boy survived, but the other boy died in the hospital three months after his collapse. “There should never, ever be a person [dying] from exertional heatstroke, because it’s 100 percent preventable,” says Dr. Doug Casa, a leading expert on heatstroke.

In the wake of the tragedy in Arkansas, FRONTLINE investigates the differences in the two boys’ fates. Only one of the boys’ teams had an athletic trainer on staff, which reflects the reality in most of Arkansas: Only 15 percent of the schools in the state have a certified medical professional at games and practices, slightly below the national average.

The program also investigates the estimated 60,000 concussions suffered each year by high school football players. In 2010, researchers discovered a degenerative mental disease in the brain of 21-year-old Owen Thomas, a University of Pennsylvania football player who committed suicide last year — and had never reported a concussion throughout his football career. Thomas’ brain showed evidence of CTE, or chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the same mental degenerative disease rampant in the brains of NFL players with serious mental problems. “It has totally changed what I thought about this game,” says VA researcher Dr. Ann McKee. “Anybody who’s playing the game, this could happen; this could be the result.”