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FIFA Women's World Cup 2011: Pre-Competition Medical Assessment of female referees and assistant referees
BACKGROUND: Precompetition screening was implemented for male referees during the 2010 Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Word Cup. In contrast, female football referees have been neglected in this respect although they experience similar physical work loads compared to male re...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3551197/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22976906 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2012-091436 |
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author | Keller, Dagmar I Bizzini, Mario Feddermann, Nina Junge, Astrid Dvorak, Jiri |
author_facet | Keller, Dagmar I Bizzini, Mario Feddermann, Nina Junge, Astrid Dvorak, Jiri |
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description | BACKGROUND: Precompetition screening was implemented for male referees during the 2010 Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Word Cup. In contrast, female football referees have been neglected in this respect although they experience similar physical work loads compared to male referees. METHODS: The standardised football-specific Pre-Competition Medical Assessment (PCMA) was performed in 51 referees and assistant referees selected for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup. RESULTS: Family history for sudden cardiac death (SCD) was positive in four referees (7.8%), but cardiac examinations did not reveal any pathological findings. Training-unrelated ECG changes were identified in three referees (5.9%), all without correlates in echocardiography or clinical examination. Most common echocardiography findings (66.6%, n=34) were asymptomatic tricuspid and mitral regurgitations. CONCLUSIONS: During the present screening, no elite female referee was identified being at risk for SCD, and no referee had to be excluded from participating in the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup. |
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spelling | pubmed-35511972013-01-23 FIFA Women's World Cup 2011: Pre-Competition Medical Assessment of female referees and assistant referees Keller, Dagmar I Bizzini, Mario Feddermann, Nina Junge, Astrid Dvorak, Jiri Br J Sports Med Short Reports BACKGROUND: Precompetition screening was implemented for male referees during the 2010 Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Word Cup. In contrast, female football referees have been neglected in this respect although they experience similar physical work loads compared to male referees. METHODS: The standardised football-specific Pre-Competition Medical Assessment (PCMA) was performed in 51 referees and assistant referees selected for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup. RESULTS: Family history for sudden cardiac death (SCD) was positive in four referees (7.8%), but cardiac examinations did not reveal any pathological findings. Training-unrelated ECG changes were identified in three referees (5.9%), all without correlates in echocardiography or clinical examination. Most common echocardiography findings (66.6%, n=34) were asymptomatic tricuspid and mitral regurgitations. CONCLUSIONS: During the present screening, no elite female referee was identified being at risk for SCD, and no referee had to be excluded from participating in the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup. BMJ Group 2013-02 2012-09-12 /pmc/articles/PMC3551197/ /pubmed/22976906 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2012-091436 Text en Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial License, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non commercial and is otherwise in compliance with the license. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ and http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/legalcode |
spellingShingle | Short Reports Keller, Dagmar I Bizzini, Mario Feddermann, Nina Junge, Astrid Dvorak, Jiri FIFA Women's World Cup 2011: Pre-Competition Medical Assessment of female referees and assistant referees |
title | FIFA Women's World Cup 2011: Pre-Competition Medical Assessment of female referees and assistant referees |
title_full | FIFA Women's World Cup 2011: Pre-Competition Medical Assessment of female referees and assistant referees |
title_fullStr | FIFA Women's World Cup 2011: Pre-Competition Medical Assessment of female referees and assistant referees |
title_full_unstemmed | FIFA Women's World Cup 2011: Pre-Competition Medical Assessment of female referees and assistant referees |
title_short | FIFA Women's World Cup 2011: Pre-Competition Medical Assessment of female referees and assistant referees |
title_sort | fifa women's world cup 2011: pre-competition medical assessment of female referees and assistant referees |
topic | Short Reports |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3551197/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22976906 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2012-091436 |
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