Evidence of meeting #7 for Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada in the 42nd Parliament, 1st session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was physician.
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Mr. Peter Fonseca (Mississauga East—Cooksville, Lib.)
We're now going to move over to Ms. Hardcastle, for two minutes.
Windsor—Tecumseh, NDP
Thank you.
Dr. Aubry, I just want to go back and ask you a little more about the consensus statement on concussion in sport. Is this something that you think needs a concerted effort to be updated and adopted?
You said that one of the milestones was in 2012. It was the first time we discussed and it was actually articulated that someone who had been hit in the head didn't return to that same game. I'm saying “we” collectively, meaning parents, trainers, doctors or whoever.
Chief Medical Officer, Hockey Canada
The consensus is actually an international document that is produced by experts around the world following the two-day symposium. They give a consensus on the evidence that is presented.
For example, in the last 2016 Berlin consensus, over 64,000 articles were reviewed, and from that, then, there is a consensus, which is based on scientific evidence.
Those guidelines are so related to scientific evidence they provide the current status of what we know in concussion. They really form the basis of other groups, such as Parachute and Hockey Canada, giving their guidelines, because they will usually follow the consensus, which becomes what I would say is the leading document in the field so that different groups can then look at it and adopt it, or adopt some parts of it.
Mr. Peter Fonseca (Mississauga East—Cooksville, Lib.)
On behalf of the committee members, thank you, Dr. Aubry and Mr. Jackson. Thank you for your candour, your openness and your willingness to be here, and for your answers to the many questions. We appreciate that.
Again the report will hopefully be tabled in the House by the end of the spring. Thank you for your recommendations. If there's anything else you would like to submit to the committee, we are open to receiving that.