Teaching the trauma teachers: an international review of the Advanced Trauma Life Support Instructor Course

Advanced Trauma Life Support instructor training in the UK: an evaluation.

The paper reports on a questionnaire evaluation of the UK-based ATLS (Advanced Trauma Life Support) instructor course. The trainee instructors who responded were mainly at consultant grade with some senior registrars. The course was regarded as being very effective in achieving most of its objectives and in raising the confidence of postgraduate medical instructors, especially those lacking pre...

The Advanced Trauma Life Support course: a history of its development and review of related literature.

The origins, development, and success of the ATLS course are described with reference to the literature.

Advanced trauma life support courses.

Improved trauma management with advanced trauma life support (ATLS) training.

OBJECTIVE To determine the value of advanced trauma life support (ATLS) training for medical staff in a major incident situation, based upon performance in a simulated exercise. METHODS A major incident exercise was used to assess the management of trauma victims arriving in hospital suffering from multiple or life threatening injuries. The effect of ATLS training, or exposure to an abbreviat...

Advanced life support in obstetrics in Ecuador: teaching the teachers.

The advanced life support in obstetrics (ALSO) course is designed to help maternity care providers prepare for obstetrical emergencies. A team of 12 US physicians and a medical interpreter recently taught the ALSO course in Ecuador, with the goal of addressing Ecuador's high maternal and infant mortality rates. To have a greater impact, a teach-the-teacher model was used so that Ecuadorian phys...