Mass Participation Event Medicine

Mass participation event medicine is the design of a medical system that finds moving patients spread along a course, such as a marathon, rather than waiting for them to reach a medical centre.

The conditions that kill runners have their own pages: Exertional Heat Illness, Exercise-Associated Hyponatraemia and Assessing the Collapsed Athlete. This page is about building a system that finds those runners and lets you tell the causes apart.

2 facts drive the design:

• •The population is self-selected and exerting, so the case mix is unlike a crowd standing in a stand
• •Demand is uneven: it rises through the field, concentrates around the finish and continues after people stop