Advanced trauma management

Includes self-aid, buddy aid, and combat lifesaver skills. Also includes emergency medical treatment provided by combat medics and corpsmen and advanced trauma management provided by physicians and physician assistants. Highest level treatment capability Army medical platoons (battalion aid stations) and USMC shock trauma platoons. 

Emergency medical care (advanced trauma management) Echelon I Battalion/squadron aid stations Echelon I Aid station of the troop medical clinic Echelon I Aid station of the troop medical clinic ... 

Santucci RA, Wessells H et al. (2004) Evaluation and management of renal injuries consensus statement of the renal trauma subcommittee. BJU Int 93 937-954 American College of Surgeons (1997) Advanced trauma life support manual, 6th edn. ACS, Chicago Kaur S, Heard SO (1996) Airway management and endotracheal intubation. In Rippe JM, Irwin RS, Fink MP, Cera FB (eds) Intensive care medicine, vol 1. Little Brown, New York, pp 1-15... 

Trauma places a heavy burden on health systems around the world, particularly in countries which have the least developed resources. Although doctors and surgeons have been treating physical trauma in war and in peace for thousands of years, it is only over the past few decades that planned responses to trauma, such as the US Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS Box 1.2) programme and its modification for use in the military sphere, have been developed, which adopt a systematic approach to the initial and continuing management. Such systems have produced a more rational approach to the early problems of physical trauma, and this has made a great difference to survival rates. 

Box 5.4 International Red Cross advanced (field medical care) measures for the management of toxic trauma (2012)... 

Specific Basic and Advanced Skills for the Management of Toxic Trauma... 

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