Teenagers who want to play sports for Orange County Public Schools will need to get electrocardiograms before they are cleared for athletic participation under a new rule that seeks to identify students at risk of sudden cardiac arrest.
The Orange school district will require ECGs, also known as EKGs, starting with the upcoming fall high school sports season. It follows the Brevard and Osceola county school districts, the first in Florida to adopt such policies when they enacted them in 2019. The Volusia County school district will make ECGs mandatory in 2022.
The board made the decision after hearing from one Osceola County parent who said it did exactly that.