Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS)

Advance Trauma Life Support (ATLS®) is an international course that teaches participants the basic skills necessary for timely management of traumatic injury.Advance Trauma Life Support (ATLS®) is an international course that teaches participants the basic skills necessary for timely management of traumatic injury.

The course includes didactic and practical sessions.Please visit this link for more information on the Trauma Guidelines for ATLS Course Directors and Participants due to COVID-19.

Learning Objectives

Participants will learn to identify injuries associated with major trauma, management of skills required for early resuscitation, and treatment of injured patients.

The ATLS® course provides its participants with a safe and reliable method for the immediate treatment of injured patients and the basic knowledge necessary to:

• Assess a patient’s condition rapidly and accurately.

• Resuscitate and stabilize patients according to priority.

• Determine whether a patient’s needs exceed a facility’s resources and/or a doctor’s capabilities.

• Arrange appropriately for a patient’s interhospital or intrahospital transfer (what, who, when, and how).

• Ensure that optimal care is provided and that the level of care does not deteriorate at any point during the evaluation, resuscitation, or transfer processes.