Professional Documents
Culture Documents
June 2017
ATLS Meets Trauma Team Training
Lets see ……
• Course Director
• ATLS Provider
• Trauma Team Leader
• Trauma Team Member
• “When I can provide better care in the field with limited resources than
my children and I received at the primary facility, there is something
wrong with the system and the system has to be changed.”
• “I can describe this experience as coming out of hostile dark hell into
civilisation.”
--Dr James Styner
ATLS and the Trauma Team
• Why?
• What?
• How?
Why?
• Do no further harm.
• Treat greatest threat to life first.
• Time is of the essence.
• One safe way.
Debriefing The Team (Pendleton
Plus)