Advanced Trauma Life Support Course (ATLS) - 20 Jun 2012

Venue:  Academic Centre, The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, TS4 3BW

Registration fee:  £650 per delegate, including all course materials, lunch and refreshments

 

Course programme - day one

09.00   Registration and coffee

09.30   Welcome and overview

09.55   Initial assessment and management lecture

10.40   Initial assessment demonstration

11.10   Mid morning coffee

11.25   Airway and ventilatory management lecutre

11.50   Shock lecture

12.30   Lunch and refreshments

13.15   Thoracic trauma lecture

13.55   Abdominal trauma lecture

14.30   Practical skills stations

16.00   Comfort break

16.10   Practical skills stations continued

17.40   Summary of the day

17.50   Close

 

Course programme - day two

07.45   Coffee

08.00   Head trauma lecture

08.40   Spine and spinal cord trauma lecture

09.20   Musculoskeletal trauma lecture

09.45   Secondary survey demo

10.15   Mid morning coffee

10.30   Practical skills

13.10   Lunch and refreshments

14.00   Injury due to burns and cold lecture

14.30   Surgical skills stations

15.40   Comfort break

15.50   Surgical skills stations continued

17.35   Summary and overview of moulage

17.50   Close

 

Course programme - day three

07.45   Coffee

08.00   Trauma in the elderly lecture

08.20   Trauma in children lecture

08.40   Trauma in women lecture

09.00   Transfer to definitive care lecture

09.20   Testing stations

11.00   Mid morning coffee

11.15   Testing stations continued

13.00   Lunch and refreshments

13.45   Results and debrief

14.00   Close