"Advanced Trauma Life Support" is a training program in acute management of trauma cases, developed in 1976 by the American College of Surgeons. The training programme has been adopted worldwide in over 30 countries worldwide. The mantra of the prgoramme is teaching a simplified and standardised approach to trauma patients. The American College of Surgeons, located in Chicago, Illinois is a scientific and educational association of surgeons that was founded in 1913 to improve the quality of care for the surgical patient by setting high standards for surgical education and practice. ...
Certification in advancedtraumalifesupport should be a prerequisite for appointment to a post as a senior house officer in accident and emergency or be incorporated into accident department induction courses, as occurs in some units.
In America, the birthplace of advancedtraumalifesupport, the course is increasingly taught in the undergraduate curriculum.[11] It can be argued that this is too early to teach such skills and that the preregistration year is probably a better time.
We believe that the principles of advancedtraumalifesupport, along with those of advancedlifesupport and advanced paediatric lifesupport, should be introduced to undergraduates, perhaps as a generic resuscitation course.
AdvancedLifeSupport (ALS) for ambulance officers is believed to have contributed to the reduced number of deaths from injury in countries where this service is available.
Amongst these ambulance crews with AdvancedLifeSupport (ALS) training are being promoted in LMIC as a strategy for improving outcomes for victims of trauma.
In the absence of evidence of the effectiveness of advancedlifesupport, strong argument could be made that it should not be promoted outside the context of a properly concealed and otherwise rigorously conducted randomised controlled trial.
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