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Tue Oct 6 09:27:17 BST 2009

As Dr. McSwain said earlier, the ABCs did indeed originate from the ATLS course, originally developed in Nebraska in 1978-9 as I remember it, and brought forward by the ACS COT in 1980.  In fact, I think that Dr. McSwain was one of the original instructors and so he would be the guy to give us all the history lessons!
Ron
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From: trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org [trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org] On Behalf Of PAUL FROST [paulrachel at btopenworld.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 3:52 AM
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Subject: Re: ABCDE

I'd always thought that ABC that it had come out of CPR algorithms; surprised to hear that it is much earlier than that. Its a wonderful mnemonic  I wonder who thought of it and when?

--- On Mon, 5/10/09, KMATTOX at aol.com <KMATTOX at aol.com> wrote:

From: KMATTOX at aol.com <KMATTOX at aol.com>
Subject: Re: ABCDE
To: trauma-list at trauma.org
Date: Monday, 5 October, 2009, 11:55 PM

First, I do believe that ABC of resuscitation existed long before Dr. Peter
 Safar, although he did make significant contributions.    LONG  before .
   As I reacall the D and E, was an  outgrowth of the ATLS committee of the
ACS during the late 1980s.

k

In a message dated 10/5/2009 5:36:13 P.M. Central Daylight
 Time,
paulrachel at btopenworld.com writes:

Assuming the ABC mnemonic was coined by Peter Safar who  suggested D (di
sability) and E (Exposure) in the ABCDE protocol for  trauma?
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