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James Styner, an orthopedic surgeon was Involved in a light aeroplane
crash which results in the death of is wife and serious injuries
to his children. The plane crashed
into a field, and Dr Styner had to flagdown a car to transport him
to the nearest hospital he found it closed. Even once the hospital
was opened and a doctor called in, he found the emergency care provided
at the small regional hospital where they were treated was inadequate
and inappropriate.
Lincoln Medical Center, Auburn, NebraskaJim Styner and his colleague Paul
'Skip' Collicott, with assistance from Advanced Cardiac Life Support
personnel and the Lincoln Medical Education Foundation, produced
the initial ATLS course. Various Medical, EMS and Nursing groups
within the Nebraska region began to collate a set of protocols for
the management of such patients.
Collicott PE: Advanced Trauma Life Support Course: An improvement
in rural trauma care. Neb Med J, 64279-64280, 1979.
Advanced
Trauma Life Support
American College of Surgeons Committee on
Trauma adopted ATLS and began US and International dissemination
of the course.
Collicott PE, Hughes IL: Training in Advanced Trauma Life
Support. JAMA, 243(11):1156-1159, 1980.
Emergency Nurse's Association puts on first
Trauma Nursing Core Course.
Web
site goes online
August 1995
Definitive
Surgical Trauma Care
International Association for Trauma and
Surgical Intensive Care runs the first definitive trauma surgery
courses.
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