Advanced Trauma Life Support ATLS Student Course Manual 2018
xi PREFACE International Liaison to the Committee on AdvANced Trauma Life Support of the AmericAN College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma Karen J. Brasel, MD, FACS Professor and Program Director Oregon Health and Science University Portland, Oregon United States American Society of Anesthesiologists Liaison to the Committee on AdvANced Trauma Life Support of the AmericAN College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma Richard P. Dutton, MD, MBA Michael Murray, MD General Surgery Banner Churchill Community Hospital Sparks, Nevada United States Advanced Trauma Care for Nurses Liaison to the Committee on AdvANced tRAuma Life Support of the AmericAN College of Surgeons Committee on tR Auma Jan Howard, MSN, RN, Chair, ATCN Committee South Bend, Indiana United States American College of Emergency PhysiciANs Liaisons to the Committee on AdvANced Trauma Life Support of the AmericAN College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma Christopher Cribari, MD Medical Director, Acute Care Surgery, Medical Center of the Rockies, University of Colorado Health Loveland, CO United States Christopher S. Kang, MD, FACEP Attending Physician, Emergency Medicine, Madigan Army Medicine Center Tacoma, Washington United States AdvANced Trauma Life Support Senior Educator Advisory Board Debbie Paltridge, MHlthSc (ED) Senior Educator Advisory Board, Chair Principal Educator Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Melbourne, Victoria Australia Joe Acker, EMT-P, MPH (Term completed April 2017) Executive Director, Birmingham Regional EMS System University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, Alabama United States Wesam Abuznadah, MD, MEd, FRCS(C ), FACS, RPVI Assistant Professor, Consultant Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Associate Dean, Academic and Student Affairs, College of Medicine King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences Jeddah Saudi Arabia
xii PREFACE Jacqueline Bustraan, MSc Educational Advisor, Trainer and Researcher Leiden University Medical Center/BOAT (Bustraan Organisation, Advice and Training) Leiden The Netherlands Marzellus Hofmann, MD, MME Dean of Medical Education and Student Affairs Witten/Herdecke University, Faculty of Health Witten, NRW Germany Elizabeth Vallejo de Solezio National Education, COT Ecuador Quito Ecuador Claus Dieter Stobaus, ME, ED Postgraduate Program in Education Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul 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 Prof. Heba Youssef Mohamed Sayed, MD Professor and Head of Forensic Medicine and Clinical Toxicology Department Port Said University Port Said, Egypt Arab Republic of Egypt Kum Ying Tham, MBBS, FRCSE, EDD Senior Consultant Tan Tock Seng Hospital Singapore AdvANced Trauma Life Support CoordiNAtor Committee Lesley Dunstall, RN ATLS Coordinator Committee, Chair National Coordinator, EMST/ATLS Australasia Royal Australasian College of Surgeons North Adelaide, South Australia Australia Catherine Wilson, MSN, ACNP-BC, CEN ATLS Coordinator Committee, Vice Chair Trauma Outreach Coordinator Vanderbilt University Medical Center Nashville, Tennessee United States Mary Asselstine, RN Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Toronto, Ontario Canada Ryan Bales, RN ATLS Coordinator CNIII Trauma Program Sacramento, California United States Vilma Cabading Trauma Courses Office, Deanship of Postgraduate Education King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences Riyadh Saudi Arabia Sally Campbell, RN, BA ATLS Course Coordinator Kaiser Medical Center, Vacaville, California David Grant Medical Center, Travis Air Force Base, California United States Cristiane de Alencar Domingues, RN, MSN, PhD Professor Faculdade das Américas (FAM) São Paulo, São Paulo Brazil Agienszka Gizzi Regional and International Programmes Coordinator The Royal College of Surgeons of England London United Kingdom
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xi<br />
PREFACE<br />
International Liaison<br />
to the Committee on<br />
AdvANced <strong>Trauma</strong> <strong>Life</strong><br />
<strong>Support</strong> of the AmericAN<br />
College of Surgeons<br />
Committee on <strong>Trauma</strong><br />
Karen J. Brasel, MD, FACS<br />
Professor and Program Director<br />
Oregon Health and Science University<br />
Portland, Oregon<br />
United States<br />
American Society of<br />
Anesthesiologists Liaison<br />
to the Committee on<br />
AdvANced <strong>Trauma</strong> <strong>Life</strong><br />
<strong>Support</strong> of the AmericAN<br />
College of Surgeons<br />
Committee on <strong>Trauma</strong><br />
Richard P. Dutton, MD, MBA<br />
Michael Murray, MD<br />
General Surgery<br />
Banner Churchill Community Hospital<br />
Sparks, Nevada<br />
United States<br />
<strong>Advanced</strong> <strong>Trauma</strong> Care<br />
for Nurses Liaison to the<br />
Committee on AdvANced<br />
tRAuma <strong>Life</strong> <strong>Support</strong> of<br />
the AmericAN College of<br />
Surgeons Committee on<br />
tR Auma<br />
Jan Howard, MSN, RN, Chair, ATCN Committee<br />
South Bend, Indiana<br />
United States<br />
American College of<br />
Emergency PhysiciANs<br />
Liaisons to the Committee<br />
on AdvANced <strong>Trauma</strong> <strong>Life</strong><br />
<strong>Support</strong> of the AmericAN<br />
College of Surgeons<br />
Committee on <strong>Trauma</strong><br />
Christopher Cribari, MD<br />
Medical Director, Acute Care Surgery, Medical Center of<br />
the Rockies, University of Colorado Health<br />
Loveland, CO<br />
United States<br />
Christopher S. Kang, MD, FACEP<br />
Attending Physician, Emergency Medicine, Madigan Army<br />
Medicine Center<br />
Tacoma, Washington<br />
United States<br />
AdvANced <strong>Trauma</strong> <strong>Life</strong><br />
<strong>Support</strong> Senior Educator<br />
Advisory Board<br />
Debbie Paltridge, MHlthSc (ED)<br />
Senior Educator Advisory Board, Chair<br />
Principal Educator<br />
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons<br />
Melbourne, Victoria<br />
Australia<br />
Joe Acker, EMT-P, MPH (Term completed April 2017)<br />
Executive Director, Birmingham Regional EMS System<br />
University of Alabama at Birmingham<br />
Birmingham, Alabama<br />
United States<br />
Wesam Abuznadah, MD, MEd, FRCS(C ), FACS, RPVI<br />
Assistant Professor, Consultant Vascular and Endovascular<br />
Surgery<br />
Associate Dean, Academic and <strong>Student</strong> Affairs, College<br />
of Medicine<br />
King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences<br />
Jeddah<br />
Saudi Arabia
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