This episode of PDACast is It is a pediatric podcast for moms, Hello everyone and welcome once again to PDACAST.

It is a pediatric podcast for moms and dads.

This is Dr. Mike coming to you from the campus of nationwide children's hospital.

We're in Columbus, Ohio.

It's episode 566.

We're calling this one heat-related problems in student athletes.

I want to welcome all of you to the program. So fall sports are ready for action with training and conditioning and practicing and playing well underway,

but the summer heat is still with us in many areas of the country, which could spell trouble for student athletes

as we think about hydration

and heat exhaustion and heat stroke, all of those things. And I'm sure that these thoughts have

crossed your mind as well, especially if you have a student athlete at home and a heat wave

has taken shape in your neck of the woods. We want our young athletes to perform their best,

of course, but we also want to keep them safe in the summer heat.

So we're going to talk about ways to prevent overheating during sports participation,

and we'll discuss the concept of an emergency action plan, or EAP,

so that student athletes and coaches and athletic trainers and parents have an idea of exactly what to do when the temperature and humidity are high and how to help if trouble begins.

In our usual PDACAST fashion, we have a handful of experts here to help us out.

Dr. Jonathan Napolitano is a sports medicine physician at Nationwide Children's Hospital.

Annie Ember is also with sports medicine.

She's a certified athletic trainer at nationwide children's.

And we have a co-host leading the conversation this week.

It's Eric Layton.

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