The Berlin International Consensus Meeting on Concussion in Sport

Gavin A Davis; Richard G Ellenbogen; Julian Bailes; Robert C Cantu; Karen M Johnston; Geoffrey T Manley; Shinji Nagahiro; Allen Sills; Charles H Tator; Paul McCrory

doi:10.1093/neuros/nyx344

The Berlin International Consensus Meeting on Concussion in Sport

Neurosurgery. 2018 Feb 1;82(2):232-236. doi: 10.1093/neuros/nyx344.

Authors

Gavin A Davis^{1

2}, Richard G Ellenbogen³, Julian Bailes⁴, Robert C Cantu⁵, Karen M Johnston⁶, Geoffrey T Manley⁷, Shinji Nagahiro⁸, Allen Sills⁹, Charles H Tator¹⁰, Paul McCrory¹

Affiliations

¹ Melbourne Brain Centre, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health-Austin Campus, Heidelberg, Australia.
² Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne; Cabrini Medical Centre, Malvern, Victoria and Austin Health, Heidelberg, Australia.
³ Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
⁴ Department of Neurosurgery, North Shore University Health System, Evanston, Illinois.
⁵ Centre for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.
⁶ Division of Neurosurgery, University of Toronto; Concussion Management Program AESM, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁷ Department of Neurosurgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
⁸ Department of Neurosurgery, Tokushima University Hospital, Tokushima, Japan.
⁹ Department of Neurosurgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.
¹⁰ Division of Neurosurgery and Canadian Concussion Centre, Toronto Western Hospital and University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.

PMID: 29106653
DOI: 10.1093/neuros/nyx344

Abstract

The Fifth International Conference on Concussion in Sport was held in Berlin in October 2016. A series of 12 questions and subquestions was developed and the expert panel members were required to perform a systematic review to answer each question. Following presentation at the Berlin meeting of the systematic review, poster abstracts and audience discussion, the summary Consensus Statement was produced. Further, a series of tools for the management of sport-related concussion was developed, including the Sport Concussion Assessment Tool Fifth edition (SCAT5), the Child SCAT5, and the Concussion Recognition Tool Fifth edition. This paper elaborates on this process, the outcomes, and explores the implications for neurosurgeons in the management of sport-related concussion.

Keywords: Concussion; Sport.

Publication types

Consensus Development Conference

MeSH terms

Athletic Injuries* / complications
Athletic Injuries* / therapy
Berlin
Brain Concussion* / etiology
Brain Concussion* / therapy
Child
Consensus
Humans