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The Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) course has achieved widespread global uptake, but there remains conflicting evidence regarding its actual benefit to patient mortality.
The ATLS course aims to provide a universal framework for trauma management, though evidence of its mortality benefit is conflicting.
ATLS uptake should not alter trauma protocols given conflicting mortality data; leaves open need for rigorous RCTs.
The Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) course aims to provide a universal framework for the management of trauma that will lead to a reduction in patient mortality. While it has achieved great success in global uptake, there is conflicting evidence of its benefit to patients.1 2 ATLS has great scope as it is designed for doctors practising away from the …
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Samir E. Bishara (2009) studied this question. The Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) course has achieved widespread global uptake, but there remains conflicting evidence regarding its actual benefit to patient mortality.
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