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Mon Aug 2 03:10:23 BST 2004

Objection!
I fail to see how:
"The Early Management of Trauma Course conducted under the aegies of the
Society of Emergency Medicine of India is probably the only course that
could be labelled as the Indian equivalent of ATLS." John Prakash Raj,
Vellore. India

can be interpreted as:

"The original post indicated that one emergency medicine organization
was putting on the ATLS course in a country which is not known to have
requested the ACS to license the ATLS course to be given in that
country. " Ken Mattox, USA

That aside India has a number of trauma life support courses on offer
that I am familiar with.

Basic such as:

Primary Trauma Care (manual FREELY available in pdf at (
www.nda.ox.ac.uk/ptc/) courtesy of the Primary Trauma Care Foundation,
the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthetists and the Royal
Coillege of Anaesthetists)

and advanced level such as:

The National Trauma Management Course (NTMC) organised by the
International Association for Surgery of Trauma and Surgical Intensive
Care (IATSIC) and the Academy of Traumatology (India) (
www.indiatrauma.org).

The Early Management of Trauma Course at The Christian Medical College
of Vellore ( http://www.emtcvellore.com/)

Of course taking the opportunity for a plug:

TraumaCare 2004 ( www.traumacare2004.com) (final programme out in 2
weeks) has a whole session that will discuss and challenge current
trauma education.

Best wishes, Mike

Michael Parr
Intensive Care Unit, Liverpool and Campbelltown Hospitals
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
President, International Trauma Care (ITACCS)
www.itaccs.com       www.traumacare2004.com

-----Original Message-----
From: trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org
[mailto:trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org]On Behalf Of KMATTOX at aol.com
Sent: Monday, 2 August 2004 8:22 AM
To: trauma-list at trauma.org
Subject: ATLS

Lest there be any misunderstanding, there is no one on this list server
that is more committed to trauma education at any and all levels.  My
concern is that copyrighted material might be misused.   International
copyright laws exist to protect Anyone's intellectual property.    It is
inappropriate to take a textbook, a song, a movie, or any other property
and merely copy it for anthers use and gain. Every country (well almost
every country) of the world has laws against black-market duplication.

The ATLS course is one of those copyrighted material.  The ACS has
worked hard to assure that when the words ATLS are uses it implies a
standardized quality in the instructors, the course material, the
simulated patients, and the specific case reviews, as well as the manual
and test material.   The same is true for other courses developed by an
organization and scores of examples exist across the gamut of our
societies.   

The original post indicated that one emergency medicine organization was
putting on the ATLS course in a country which is not known to have
requested the ACS to license the ATLS course to be given in that
country.  It would be inappropriate for that emergency medicine
organization to put on an ACS ATLS course using black-market material. 

On the other hand there are some rather uniform principles of trauma
care.   To put on a trauma course is appropriate and the instructors
should clearly indicate the instructors, the affiliations, the sponsors,
and the source of the material.  

k

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