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Abu-Zidan FM. Advanced trauma life support training: How useful it is?. World J Crit Care Med. 2016;5(1):12-6doi: 10.5492/wjccm.v5.i1.12.
Abu-Zidan, F. M. (2016). Advanced trauma life support training: How useful it is?. World journal of critical care medicine, 5(1), 12-6. https://doi.org/10.5492/wjccm.v5.i1.12
Abu-Zidan, Fikri M. "Advanced trauma life support training: How useful it is?." World journal of critical care medicine vol. 5,1 (2016): 12-6. doi: https://doi.org/10.5492/wjccm.v5.i1.12
Abu-Zidan FM. Advanced trauma life support training: How useful it is?. World J Crit Care Med. 2016 Feb 04;5(1):12-6. doi: 10.5492/wjccm.v5.i1.12. eCollection 2016 Feb 04. PMID: 26855889; PMCID: PMC4733451.
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World J Crit Care Med. 2016 Feb 04;5(1):12-6. doi: 10.5492/wjccm.v5.i1.12. eCollection 2016 Feb 04.

Advanced trauma life support training: How useful it is?.

World journal of critical care medicine

Fikri M Abu-Zidan

Affiliations

  1. Fikri M Abu-Zidan, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, PO BOX 17666, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates.

PMID: 26855889 PMCID: PMC4733451 DOI: 10.5492/wjccm.v5.i1.12

Abstract

We have tried in a recently published systematic review (World J of Surg 2014; 38: 322-329) to study the educational value of advanced trauma life support (ATLS) courses and whether they improve survival of multiple trauma patients. This Frontier article summarizes what we have learned and reflects on future perspectives in this important area. Our recently published systematic review has shown that ATLS training is very useful from an educational point view. It significantly increased knowledge, and improved practical skills and the critical decision making process in managing multiple trauma patients. These positive changes were evident in a wide range of learners including undergraduate medical students and postgraduate residents from different subspecialties. In contrast, clear evidence that ATLS training reduces trauma death is lacking. It is obvious that it is almost impossible to perform randomized controlled trials to study the effect of ATLS courses on trauma mortality. Studying factors predicting trauma mortality is a very complex issue. Accordingly, trauma mortality does not depend solely on ATLS training but on other important factors, like presence of well-developed trauma systems including advanced pre-hospital care. We think that the way to answer whether ATLS training improves survival is to perform large prospective cohort studies of high quality data and use advanced statistical modelling.

Keywords: Advanced trauma life support; Course; Death; Education; Training

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