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EDITORIAL
Advance trauma life support
Advanced trauma life support in the United Kingdom: time to move on
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Dr J P Nolan
Department of Anaesthesia, Royal United Hospital, Combe Park, Bath BA1 3NG, UK; jerry.nolan@ukgateway.net
There are strong reasons for the UK to develop its own trauma life support course.
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When the Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) was introduced into the United Kingdom in 1988 it revolutionised trauma training for doctors who were expected to treat seriously injured patients. The American College of Surgeons’ Committee on Trauma (ACS COT) had compiled a course manual that, in the main, represented state of the art practice in the treatment of major trauma. The style of teaching was refreshing; indeed, much of medical education in the UK has evolved into the same scenario based interactive format. I had the opportunity to take the course in Baltimore, Maryland in 1989. In the following year, as an attending anaesthesiologist at the Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, I was then able to see the teaching applied while resuscitating seriously injured patients covering the range of blunt and penetrating trauma. I gained my ATLS instructor status while in Baltimore and taught on two
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