>>JENNIFER WAUGH: AS WE HAVE SEEN IN RECENT WEEKS A FLORIDA HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC
ASSOCIATION HAS NOT ALWAYS
TAKEN THE ADVICE OF ITS MEDICAL
ADVISORY COMMITTEE WHEN
DECIDING ABOUT ALLOWING A
STUDENT ATHLETES TO BEGIN
PRACTICE AND ALSO TO
PLAY GAMES. THERE IS A CONCERN
ABOUT TEENS BEING READY TO
START STRENUOUS EXERCISE IN THE
HEAT. GIVEN THE PANDEMIC AND
MONTHS OF ADVICE FOR THOSE
TEENS TO STAY INSIDE AS WE SAW
WHEN THE PANDEMIC WAS REALLY IN
HIGH GEAR. BACK
IN MARCH SEPTIC IS THE DIRECTOR
OF THE JACKSONVILLE SPORTS
MEDICINE PROGRAM. HE ALSO SITS
ON THE MEDICAL ADVISORY
COMMITTEE, THE DEVICES THE
ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION WHICH
DICTATES WHEN KIDS CAN PLAY
GOOD MORNING TO YOU BOB ALWAYS
GOOD TO HAVE YOU ON THE SHOW.
>> GOOD MORNING JEN THANKS FOR
HAVING ME. >>JENNIFER WAUGH: SO WHAT IS THE COMMITTEE’S MAIN TO
CONCERNS NOW THAT WE’VE SEEN
THAT THE F H S UH UH HAS SAID
IT’S OK FOR KIDS TO START
PRACTICING.
>> I THINK YOU HIT IT
RIGHT THERE IN YOUR WE’RE A
LITTLE BIT CONCERNED THAT THE
KIDS HAVE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY
TO DO THE CONDITIONING. THAT
IS NEEDED. THROUGHOUT THE
SUMMER TIME. I’M CERTAINLY WE
HAD OUR SPRING. FOOTBALL
AND PRACTICES ON DISRUPT AND ON INTO THE SUMMER AND NOW WE ARE READY TO RAMP UP AND GO INTO
THE
FALL SO DEFINITELY SOME PEAK
CONDITION FOR THE KIDS AND WE
REALLY NEED TO FOCUS ON THAT
CLIMATE IS A SHUN PROCESS AS
YOU KNOW THE LAST FEW DAYS HAVE
BEEN VERY HOT
AND WE’RE LOOKING AT SOME HOT
DAYS COMING UP AS WELL SO THAT
THEY COULD BE VERY DANGEROUS
FOR KIDS.
>>JENNIFER WAUGH: SO I KNOW
THAT UNDER THE ZACHARY MARTIN
LAW WHICH ACT RATHER WHICH WE
HAVE PREVIOUSLY WHEN IT WAS
HOPED HOPING THAT IT WOULD BE
PASSED IT ENDED UP GOING TO IT
IN EFFECT
LAST MONTH THAT HIGH SCHOOLS
ARE REQUIRED TO TAKE MORE
SAFETY PRECAUTIONS WHEN
ATHLETES ARE PRACTICING IN
THE HEAT. I’D LIKE TO TALK A
LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT BECAUSE
IT SPECIFICALLY ABOUT
ONE OF KIND OF 3 IMPORTANT
SAFETY PROTOCOLS THAT THESE
LOCAL HIGH SCHOOLS NOW HAVE TO
FALL FOLLOW INVOLVES SOMETHING
CALLED
A W BGT YOU EXPLAIN WHAT THAT
IS AND WHY IT’S SO IMPORTANT
HAVEN’T PRACTICES THAT ARE
HELD OUTSIDE.
>> YEAH, ABSOLUTELY SO IT W BGT
IS A WET BULB GLOBE THERMOMETER
TO SPECIAL. CONSIDERING A NEW NEW TYPE OF THERMOMETER IT’S BEEN AROUND FOR A WHILE BUT
WE’RE JUST STARTING TO USE THEM
NOW IN OUR SCHOOLS IN DUVAL
COUNTY WE’VE BEEN USING THEM
FOR A NUMBER
OF YEARS. BUT THAT THERMOMETER
TAKES INTO CONSIDERATION THE
AIR TEMPERATURE AS WELL AS THE
HUMIDITY AS WELL AS THE REAGAN
TEMPERATURE OF THE
SUN SAID PRODUCES A VALUE
CALLED THE HEAT
STRESS VALUE. AND IN ITSELF
THAT IS JUST CREATING SOME
AWARENESS IT’S IT’S TALKING TO
VARIOUS LETTING THE COACHES
REALLY KNOW EXACTLY HOW ODD IT
IS AND EXACTLY HOW MUCH HEAT
STRESS THEIR STUDENT ATHLETES
ARE GOING TO
NOW PLACED ON THEM ACTIVITIES
SO THAT IN ITSELF IS.
COMBINED WITH WITHIN OUR POLICY
WE HAVE A TEMPLATE IF YOU WILL
IN THAT TEMPLE IT WILL THE
COACHES WITH CERTAIN
MODIFICATIONS
SO I IN NO WAY IS IT MEANT TO
PENALIZE IS MEANT TO REALLY
CREATE AWARENESS AND
TO PREVENT CERTAIN TYPES OF
HEAT ILLNESS HEAT STROKE FROM
OCCURRING BECAUSE THEY ARE
100% PREVENTABLE.
>>JENNIFER WAUGH: AND AS WE SAW
WITH ZACHARY MARTIN WHO IS A
YOUNG MAN 16 YEARS OLD
WHO COLLAPSED A FEW YEARS
PLAYING FOOTBALL, HE WAS IT WAS
DURING CONDITIONING AND AS WE
LEARNED FROM
HIS PARENTS. UNFORTUNATELY WHAT
HAPPENED TO HIM COULD HAVE BEEN
PREVENTED BECAUSE ALL OF THE
THINGS THAT SHOULD HAVE
HAPPENED IN TERMS OF COOLING
HIM DOWN GETTING HIM OUT OF THE
SUN INTO THE SHADE AND CALLING
FOR EMERGENCY PERSONNEL RIGHT
AWAY DID NOT HAPPEN AS A RESULT
HE DIED. WEEKS
AFTER COLLAPSING. PART OF THIS
ACT ALSO A BOB DICTATES HOW
MANY REST BREAKS HAVE TO BE
TAKEN BASED ON THE LENGTH OF
PRACTICE AND ALSO SOME
COOLING ZONES. AND THE REASON
I’M BRINGING THE WB GT UP AS
WELL AS THE COOLING ZONES IS
THAT THESE ARE THINGS THAT ARE
PARENTS SHOULD BE ASKING SHOULD
THEY NOT.
THEY NOT. >>JENNIFER WAUGH: THEIR STUDENTS COACHES TO MAKE SURE
THAT THESE ARE
IN PLACE.
>> YOU KNOW THEY’RE VERY SIMPLE
THINGS THAT HAVE
IN PLACE AGAIN WE’RE VERY HAPPY
THAT WE’VE HAD IN PLACE IT IN
OUR DUVALSCHOOLS OF THE STATE
LAW NOW IS REQUIRING THEM
FOR ALL.
>> OF OUR HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS
ARE ALL OF OUR HIGH SCHOOLS
THAT
OFFER SPORTS.
>> ON TO HAVE THEM SO THEY’RE
VERY SIMPLE THERMOMETER TO HAVE
A AND THE HUMBER A TARP
METHOD EVEN I JUST TO BE ON
GUARD IN IN THE EVENT THAT
SOMEBODY DOES FALL ILL TO
THE E WHAT WE KNOW IS THAT COOL
BEFORE TRANSPORT IS THE
MONTROSE THAT WE NEED TO HAVE
IF SOMEBODY
FALLS ILL DUE TO THE HEAT WE
WANT TO GET THEM COOL DOWN AS
RAPIDLY AS POSSIBLE. WE CAN
COOL THEM DOWN WITHIN THE FIRST
FEW MINUTES OF THEIR COLLAPSE,
GENERALLY THEY READ THEY THEY
RESPOND VERY QUICKLY AND THEY
RECOVER
VERY QUICKLY. IF WE’RE NOT ABLE
TO GET THEM COOL DOWN AGAIN A
VERY SIMPLE THING TO DO THROW
THEM IN A KIDDIE POOL THROW
THEM IN A TOWN THAT YOU HAVE
OVER THERE WITH SOME COLD WATER
AND GET THEM COOL DOWN IF WE
DON’T GET THEM COOL DOWN THERE
THERE COULD BE POTENTIAL ON
DEVASTATING EFFECT AND AS YOU
MENTIONED ZACK MARTIN I LOST
HIS LIFE ON TO TO THIS
YOU KNOW SEND CASE OF OF
COACHES NOT BEING ABLE TO GET
HIM INTO A COLD
WATER TUB.
>>JENNIFER WAUGH: AND WE WANT
TO REMIND OUR VIEWERS BOB THANK
YOU FOR JOINING US THIS MORNING
APPRECIATE IT. THIS IS THE
STATE LAW SO THIS ISN’T JUST OF
ALL COUNTY. THIS IS ALL OF THE COUNTIES YOU KNOW THAT THAT THAT WE REACH AND BEYOND IN THE
STATE
OF FLORIDA. YOU SHOULD BE
ASKING THESE QUESTIONS IN A
FINAL POINT ALSO IS MAKE SURE
THAT YOUR STUDENTS COACH HAS AN
EMERGENCY PLAN. WHAT WILL
HAPPEN IF GOD FORBID ONE OF OUR
CHILDREN COLLAPSES ON THE FIELD