Advanced Trauma Life Support (July 2024)

Course Description

Injured patients present a wide range of complex problems. The ATLS Student Course presents a concise approach to assessing and managing multiple injured patients. The course presents doctors with knowledge and techniques that are comprehensive and easily adapted to fit their needs. The skills described in the manual represent one safe way to perform each technique, and the ACS recognizes that there are other acceptable approaches. However, the knowledge and skills taught in the course are easily adapted to all venues for the care of patients.

The American College of Surgeons (ACS) and its Committee on Trauma (COT) have developed the Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) program for doctors. This program provides systemic and concise training for the early care of trauma patients. The ATLS program provides participants with a safe, reliable method for immediate management of the injured patient and the basic knowledge necessary to:

1. Assess the patient’s condition rapidly and accurately.
2. Resuscitate and stabilize the patient according to priority.
3. Determine if the patient’s needs exceed a facility’s capacity.
4. Arrange appropriately for the patient’s inter-hospital transfer (who, what, when, and how).
5. Assure that optimum care is provided and that the level of care does not deteriorate at any point during the evaluation, resuscitation, or transfer process.

For doctors who infrequently treat trauma, the ATLS course provides an easy to remember method for evaluating and treating the victim of a traumatic event. For doctors who treat traumatic injuries on a frequent basis, the ATLS course provides a scaffold for evaluation, treatment, education, and quality assurance. In short, ATLS is a measurable, reproducible, and comprehensive system of trauma care.

Program Schedule

Class will begin each day at 7:30am with registration and breakfast starting at 7:15am. Class will end by 5:00pm on day 1 and please expect to stay until 6:30pm on day 2, to allow enough time to complete your practical and written test.

Additional course information and your textbook will be shipped to the address listed on your registration application.

Cancellation Policy

A refund may be provided to those who cancel their registration at least fourteen (14) days before the course start date. The course access fee, currently $100, will be deducted from the total refund amount. The refund will be processed onto the original method of payment. If the participant paid by check, a check will be sent to the mailing address listed on the registration form.

NO refunds will be provided to those who cancel their registration fewer than fourteen (14) days before the course start date.

For more information, please contact the course coordinator at 919.350.7727 or dahill@wakemed.org.

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