National
Football League Head, Neck and Spine Committee’s Concussion Diagnosis and
Management Protocol: 2017-18 season.
Ellenbogen RG, Batjer H, Cardenas J,
Berger M, Bailes J, Pieroth E, Heyer R, Theodore N, Hsu W, Nabel E, Maroon J,
Cantu R, Barnes R, Collins J, Putukian M, Lonser R, Solomon G, Sills A. Br J
Sports Med. 2018 Mar 16. pii: bjsports-2018-099203. doi:
10.1136/bjsports-2018-099203. [Epub ahead of print]
The National Football League (NFL) Head,
Neck and Spine Committee synthesized the current evidence for concussion
diagnosis and management including the Berlin consensus statement and tailored
it to the NFL. “One of the goals of the Committee is to provide a standardised,
reliable, efficient and evidence-based protocol for concussion diagnosis and
management that can be applied in this professional sport during practice and
game day. In this article, the end-of-season version of the 2017-18 NFL
Concussion Diagnosis and Management Protocol is described along with its
clinical rationale. Immediate actions for concussion programme enhancement and
research are reviewed.”