Advanced Trauma Life Support ATLS Student Course Manual 2018

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PREFACE
Gary A. Vercruysse, MD, FACS
Director of Burn Services
Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of Trauma, Burns,
Acute Care Surgery and Surgical Critical Care
University of Arizona School of Medicine
Tucson, Arizona
United States
Robert J. Winchell, MD, FACS
Chief, Division of Trauma, Burn, Acute and Critical Care
Director of the Trauma Center
Weill Cornell Medicine
New York–Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center
New York, New York
United States
Associate Members to the
Committee on AdvANced
tRAuma Life Support of
the AmericAN College
of Surgeons Committee
on Trauma
Mary-Margaret Brandt, MD, MHSA, FACS
Trauma Director
St. Joseph Mercy Health System
Ann Arbor, Michigan
United States
Megan L. Brenner, MD FACS
Assistant Professor of Surgery
University of Maryland Medical Center
Baltimore, Maryland
United States
Frederic J. Cole, Jr., MD, FACS
Associate Medical Director, Trauma Clinic and Patient
Outcomes
Legacy Emanuel Medical Center
Portland, Oregon
United States
Lewis E. Jacobson, MD, FACS
Chair, Department of Surgery
Director, Trauma and Surgical Critical Care
St. Vincent Indianapolis Hospital
Indianapolis, Indiana
United States
Newton Djin Mori, MD, PhD, FACS
General and Trauma Surgeon
Hospital das Clinicas–University of São Paulo
São Paulo, São Paulo
Brazil
John P. Sutyak, EdM, MD, FACS
Director, Southern Illinois Trauma Center
Associate Professor of Surgery
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
Springfield, Illinois
United States
Liaisons to the
Committee on AdvANced
tRAuma Life Support of
the AmericAN College
of Surgeons Committee
on Trauma
Michael Murray, MD
General Surgery
Banner Churchill Community Hospital
Sparks, Nevada
United States
Clark West, MD FACR
Co-Course Director
The University of Texas Health Science
Houston Medical School
Houston, Texas
United States
Oscar D. Guillamondegui, MD, MPH, FACS
Professor of Surgery
Trauma Medical Director
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, Tennessee
United States