Description
ATLS – Advanced Trauma Life Support (by American College of Surgeons)
All chapters were rewritten and revised to ensure clear
coverage of the most up-to-date scientific content, which
is also represented in updated references.
New to this
edition are:
• Completely revised skills stations based on
unfolding scenarios
• Emphasis on the trauma team, including a new
Teamwork section at the end of each chapter
and a new appendix focusing on Team Resource
Management in ATLS
• Expanded Pitfalls features in each chapter to
identify correlating preventive measures meant
to avoid the pitfalls
• Additional skills in local hemorrhage control,
including wound packing and tourniquet
application
• Addition of the new Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS)
• An update of terminology regarding spinal
immobilization to emphasize restriction of
spinal motion
