Key result
Review provides a framework for advising student athletes at bleeding risk on sports participation.
This review provides a framework for pediatric hematologists to advise and support student athletes at risk for bleeding regarding sports participation.
May inform hematologist counseling of bleeding-risk athletes; leaves open prospective validation of the framework.
Frequently, pediatric hematologists need to provide guidance regarding sports participation for children with congenital coagulopathies, immune thrombocytopenia, and those receiving anticoagulation. Although sports participation has clear health and psychosocial benefits, it can be associated with harm secondary to bleeding from injury. Decision-making for sports involvement should be individualized, patient centered, and well informed. This review focuses on the current data regarding the benefit as well as risks for sports participation and provides a framework for advising and supporting the student athlete who is at risk for bleeding.
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Char Witmer (2018) conducted a review in Congenital coagulopathies, immune thrombocytopenia, and anticoagulation in student athletes. Sports participation guidance was evaluated. This review provides a framework for advising and supporting student athletes at risk for bleeding regarding the benefits and risks of sports participation.
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