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Sports medicine

rapid and often fatal brain swelling when an athlete sustains a second head injury before symptoms from a first concussion have cleared.

In sports medicine, second impact syndrome refers to rapid and often fatal brain swelling when an athlete sustains a second head injury before symptoms from a first concussion have cleared. This meaning comes from Cantu (1998) in Clinics in Sports Medicine.[1]

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head3 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs impact6 fields · 11 citationsjingle · one name, six constructs injury2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two carriers

References

Cantu, R. C. (1998). Second-impact Syndrome. Clinics in Sports Medicine, 17(1), 37-44. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0278-5919(05)70059-4

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