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6, 7 Additional studies suggest an improvement related to the introduction of ATLS 8 but others have failed to show significant improvement in patient outcome and assessment. 3, 4 Improvements were also noted in the quality of trauma care apparent upon the arrival of patients at a major hospital 5 and on mortality rates, using multiple logistic regression analysis. Early reports on the implementation and evaluation of these pilot courses and the improvements in rural trauma care appeared in the literature soon afterwards. These had expanded nationally under the auspices of the American College of Surgeons by 1980.

The pilot courses were run in Aubern, Nebraska in 1977. The original aims of the ATLS courses were to train those doctors who do not manage trauma on a regular basis, such as rural general practitioners, in the initial management of the severely injured patient.

2 These courses served as a framework for the national ATLS courses adopted by the American College of Surgeons’ Committee on Trauma. A group of local surgeons and physicians, the Lincoln Medical Education Foundation, together with the University of Nebraska founded local courses aiming at teaching advanced trauma life support skills.

He was horrified at the treatment his family received at a local hospital in rural Nebraska and decided that the established system for managing the severely injured was wrong. The pilot, an orthopaedic surgeon named James Styner, was seriously injured while his wife was killed and three of his children sustained critical injuries. The ATLS course was established after a tragic plane crash in 1976, which devastated an entire family.

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