Advanced Trauma Life Support for the MRCS
Trauma care in the UK is a rapidly developing subspecialty of multiple disciplines from pre-hospital care through to rehabilitation medicine. In its infancy, the Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) approach was designed for a sole provider to critically assess and manage a multiply injured patient with life-threatening injuries through a systematic resuscitation. With the advent of modern trauma systems, major trauma centres and their trauma teams the Airway, Breathing, Circulation, Disability and Exposure approach (ABCDE) of ATLS often play out simultaneously, during which it is vital that the providers have a common understanding of each contributor's roll in the assessment and care of the patient.
Source: Surgery (Medicine Publishing) - Category: Surgery Authors: Mark Robinson, Clare Rowan Tags: Orthopaedics – I: Spine and pelvis Source Type: research