Since their introduction into the United Kingdom, Advanced Trauma Life Support Courses (ATLS) have preferentially offered places to Consultants and Senior Registrars. It is usual, however, for the initial resuscitation of the seriously injured patient to be performed by relatively inexperienced junior staff. It is incumbent upon those medical staff who are ATLS providers or instructors to desig...

BACKGROUND Trauma is major cause of morbidity and mortality in India. The Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) programme teaches a standardised method for the initial assessment and management of trauma patients, and has been adopted by more than 50 countries worldwide. AIM We sought to assess the theoretical knowledge of ATLS principles among emergency department (ED) medical officers (MOs) i...

The Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) course has become an indispensable tool in preparing health care professionals to provide optimal trauma care.
 This article highlights the impact of ATLS on empowering healthcare for excellence By providing a standardized framework, enhancing critical decision-making skills, and promoting interdisciplinary collaboration, equips practitioners with kn...

BACKGROUND Injury is responsible for an increasing global burden of death and disability. As a result, new models of trauma care have been developed. Many of these, though initially developed in high-income countries (HICs), are now being adopted in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). One such trauma care model is advanced trauma life support (ATLS) training in hospitals, which is being pr...

BACKGROUND The initial diagnostic evaluation and management of trauma patients is mainly based on Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) guidelines worldwide. Based on ATLS principles, conventional diagnostics such as conventional radiography (CR) and focused abdominal sonography in trauma (FAST) should precede selective use of CT. Whole-body CT (WBCT) is highly accurate and allows detection of li...

A total of 100 accident and emergency (A&E) departments in the UK responded to a questionnaire about their use of the pneumatic anti-shock garment (PASG). Less than one in 10 departments used PASG in their prehospital care system, less than one in five departments used PASG during in-patient care, and there was wide variation in PASG usage in those situations for which their use is recommended ...

Objective: The adherence of the physicians to guidelines in resuscitation patients is great importance since it can predict outcome. To evaluate our center hydration traumatic with crystalloids regarding Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) guidelines. Methods: We designed an algorithm obtained from ATLS using vital signs and status bleeding classify them. After categorizing according algorithm,...

The pre-hospital care of patients is increasingly recognised as a discipline in its own right. Whilst some aspects of the knowledge used to treat patients in a hospital are relevant, there are many additional skills which are required to practice safely and effectively in the pre-hospital environment. The British Medical Association recognised in 1993 that the training of doctors in the managem...

Diagnostic peritoneal lavage (DPL) is an emergency diagnostic procedure performed when intra-abdominal bleeding secondary to trauma is suspected. This procedure is part of the surgical skills section of the Advanced Trauma Life Support course. DPL is traditionally taught using anesthetized animals or cadavers. For reasons described below, these alternatives are not ideal. We have developed a co...