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ATLS: Archaic Trauma Life Support
M. D. Wiles Consultant Neuroanaesthetist. Article first published online: 7 JUL 2015. DOI: 10.1111/anae.13166
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anae.13166/full
Someone has at last written what many have been saying for years. ATLS approach is ok for a doc alone in a community hospital but no good for MTC's and doesn't reflect our current approach to trauma care.
I was in an ATACC course back in 2009 and talking about damage control surgery, TXA and so on which had been out for a few years (@2006 in my area). Here we are in 2015 and still ATLS not teaching this stuff which is almost a decade old. They are even still preaching an ABCDE approach and not CACBCDE or MARCH.
So the question is now out there - perhaps now there will be change.
M. D. Wiles Consultant Neuroanaesthetist. Article first published online: 7 JUL 2015. DOI: 10.1111/anae.13166
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anae.13166/full
Someone has at last written what many have been saying for years. ATLS approach is ok for a doc alone in a community hospital but no good for MTC's and doesn't reflect our current approach to trauma care.
I was in an ATACC course back in 2009 and talking about damage control surgery, TXA and so on which had been out for a few years (@2006 in my area). Here we are in 2015 and still ATLS not teaching this stuff which is almost a decade old. They are even still preaching an ABCDE approach and not CACBCDE or MARCH.
So the question is now out there - perhaps now there will be change.