STUDENT CONCUSSIONS AND SUDDEN CARDIAC ARREST

STUDENT CONCUSSIONS AND SUDDEN CARDIAC ARREST

po5340.01Adopted July 10, 2012Revised June 11, 2024

5340.01 - STUDENT CONCUSSIONS AND SUDDEN CARDIAC ARREST

It is the policy of the School Board that the risk of student injury be considered and addressed in the planning and implementation of every student activity sponsored by the Board. The Board therefore directs and requires that before beginning practice for an interscholastic sports activity, including cheerleading, the coach of the activity shall provide the parent of each student-athlete in grades 5-12 and each student-athlete in grades 5-12with the information sheet on Concussion and Head Injury and t acknowledgment form issued by the Indiana Department of Education (IDOE) and shall require the student’s parent and the student to sign and return the form acknowledging the receipt of the information from the Indiana Department of Education on Concussion and Head Injury. If the coach of an intramural sports activity elects to or is required to comply with I.C. 20-34-7, the coach shall provide the parent of each student-athlete in grades 5-12 and each student-athlete in grades 5-12 with the information sheet on Concussion and Head Injury and acknowledgment form issued by the Indiana Department of Education and shall require the student’s parent and the student to sign and return to the coach the form acknowledging the receipt of the information from the Indiana Department of Education on Concussion and Head Injury.

The Board also directs and requires that before beginning practice for an interscholastic sports activity, cheerleading, marching band, a drama or musical, or other extracurricular activity in which students have an increased risk of sudden cardiac arrest as determined by the IDOE, the coach of the activity, marching band leader, drama or musical leader, or sponsor of the extracurricular activity in which stuents have an increased risk of sudden cardiac arrest shall provide to each applicable student and his/her parent or legal guardian (unless the student is at least age eighteen (18) or is an emancipated minor) the information sheet on Sudden Cardiac Arrest and acknowledgment form issued by the Indiana Department of Education (IDOE) and require the applicable student and parent or legal guardian (unless the student is at least age eighteen (18) or is an emancipated minor) to sign and return to the coach, marching band leader, drama or musical leader, or extracurricular activity sponsor the form acknowledging the receipt of the information from the Indiana Department of Education on Sudden Cardiac Arrest.

A student participating in an interscholastic sports activity, cheerleading, marching band, a drama or musical, or other extracurricular activity in which students have an increased risk of sudden cardiac arrest, as determined by the IDOE, who is suspected, as determined by a game official, coach of the applicable student's team, licensed athletic trainer, physician assistant, advanced practiced registered nurse, licensed physician, marching band leader, drama or musical leader, or other official designated by the student's school, of experiencing a symptom of sudden cardiac arrest in a practice for an above activity shall be removed from practice or play at the time that the symptom is identified, and the parent or legal guardian of the student shall be notified of the student's symptoms (unless the student is at least age eighteen (18) or is an emancipated minor). A student who has been removed from practice or play may not return to practice or play until the coach, marching band leader, drama or musical leader, extracurricular activity sponsor, or other official designated by the student's school has received verbal permission from a parent or legal guardian of the student (or from the student if the student is at least age eighteen (18) or is an emancipated minor) for the student to return to practice and play. Within twenty-four (24) hours after giving verbal permission for the student to return to practice and play, the parent or legal guardian (or the student if the student is at least age eighteen (18) or is an emancipated minor) shall provide the coach, marching band leader, drama or musical leader, or other official designated by the student's school with a written statement that the student has permission to return to practice and play.

Revised 11/11/14
Revised 1/10/17
Revised 12/11/18
Revised 1/11/22
T.C. 7/12/22

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