Introducing the Child Sport Concussion Assessment Tool 6 (Child SCAT6)
Gavin A Davis, Ruben J. Echemendía, Osman Hassan Ahmed, Vicki Anderson, Cheri Blauwet, Benjamin L. Brett, Steven P. Broglio, Jared M. Bruce, Joel S. Burma, Gérard A. Gioia, Christopher C. Giza, Kevin M. Guskiewicz, Kimberly G. Harmon, Stanley A. Herring, Michael Makdissi, Christina L. Master, Michael McCrea, Tamara C. Valovich McLeod, William P Meehan,, Dhiren Naidu, Jon Patricios, Laura Purcell, Margot Putukian, Kathryn Schneider, Samuel R. Walton, Keith Owen Yeates, Roger Zemek
Abstract
RATIONALEThe requirement for a child-specific tool that can be used by health care professionals (HCPs) in the management of sport-related concussion (SRC) was recognised by the Concussion in Sport Group (CISG) in 2012 with the introduction of the Child Sport Concussion Assessment Tool 3 (Child SCAT3) for use with children ages 5-12 years. 1 This tool paralleled and complemented the SCAT3, which was developed for use in athletes, ages 13 years and over. 1 The CISG revised the Child SCAT3 following the fifth International Consensus Conference on Concussion in Sport (Berlin 2016), with the release of the Child SCAT5. 2 At that time, the version number (5) was chosen to align the version number with the consensus meeting number, and therefore, there is no Child SCAT4.During 6th International Conference on Concussion in Sport held in Amsterdam in 2022, the CISG reviewed the evidence to implement improvements to the Child SCAT5 and develop the Child SCAT6.