On field management
Ensuring that on-field medical staff have the appropriate competencies
in immediate care in sport is a key element of secondary injury
prevention programmes. English Premiership matches medical staff must
have completed a minimum of a yearly level three course in Immediate
Care in Rugby which includes advanced airway management with training in
needle cricothyroidotomy and the surgical airway. The medical staff at
English Premiership matches (who are level three trained) are
specifically trained in both the recognition and if required advanced
airway management in the prehospital setting.