SCENARIO
In a women's ITA dual match, player A had a cramp and called the trainer to the court. When the trainer arrived, he noticed that the player had also scraped her knee and was bleeding.
Here are the questions to be answered:
1. Do you take the medical timeout for the cramp and get 5 minutes treatment time and just ignore the bleeding.
2. Do you take the bleeding timeout and get up to 15 minutes and just ignore the cramp and hope it goes away?
3. Do you get 5 minutes for the cramp and then up to 15 minutes for the bleeding if it hasn't already stopped?
4. Do you just default and run to the nearest hospital?
What would you advise or do???
6 comments:
The Medical timeout has been called and must count as their medical time out. If the bleeding can be stopped and cleaned up concurrently then no bleeding time out would be charged. If the bleeding is still an issue after the medical timeout, then the bleeding time out would be taken. So, number 3 - 5 minutes for the cramp and then up to 15 minutes for the bleeding.
#3 Unless the blood interferes with the treatment of the cramp. Then the trainer may tell you what they will treat first. I wouldn't argue. Tell the trainer to let you know when they start treatment on the cramp and then time the three minutes.
5 minutes for the cramp and 15 for the bleeding. 2 seperate conditions
With the initial purpose of calling the trainer to the court for cramping, player A should be provided 5 minutes medical timeout. While during the evaluation or treatment of the cramping, bleeding was discovered, the treatment of bleeding should follow directly after the medical timeout, if it had not stopped. Could the trainer ask the player to put gauze on the wound during the medical timeout, and not be charged a bleeding timeout, if player A could stop it them-self?
I would say time the 5 minute medical timeout for the cramps and keep an eye on the 15 minute delay for bleeding. You can't exceed the 15 minutes.
#3
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