Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS)
The Advanced Trauma Life Support™ (ATLS™) program was developed by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Committee on Trauma (COT) and was first introduced in the US and abroad in 1980. The course teaches a systematic, concise approach to the care of a trauma patient that is safe and reliable.
This includes assessment of the patient's condition, resuscitation, and stabilization. If the patient's needs exceed a facility's capabilities, it also covers how to arrange for a patient's inter-hospital transfer and assure that optimum care is provided throughout the process.
The ATLS set of knowledge and skills are comprehensive and easily adapted to fit the needs of physicians, whether they practice at busy trauma centers or at centers that infrequently manage trauma patients.
Advanced Trauma Operative Management (ATOM)
The Advanced Trauma Operative Management™ (ATOM™) course was established in 1998 to increase surgical competence and confidence with operative techniques for penetrating injuries to the chest and abdomen.
During the course, surgeons are asked to identify traumatic injuries, develop a plan to surgically repair them, and be able to describe proper operative techniques.
The course is intended for senior surgical residents, trauma fellows, military surgeons, and general surgeons not frequently called on to treat penetrating injuries.
See list of dates ATOM is being offered.
Advanced Surgical Skills for Exposure in Trauma (ASSET)
The Advanced Surgical Skills for Exposure in Trauma™ (ASSET™) was developed by the Ad Hoc Committee on Surgical Skills of the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma.
The ASSET course uses human cadavers to teach surgical exposure of anatomic structures that, when injured, may pose a threat to life or limb.
The one-day course follows a modular, body region approach to key surgical exposures in five anatomic areas: neck, chest, abdomen and pelvis, and upper and lower extremities.
Each section begins with a short, case-based overview, followed by a hands-on exposure performed by students under the guidance of faculty.
The student-to-faculty ratio is low, allowing extensive faculty guidance and interaction with students.
Students assess their ability to perform each exposure independently and are evaluated on knowledge and technical skills. The intended audience includes mid-level and senior surgical residents, trauma and acute care surgical fellows, or any surgeon who wishes to undertake a review of this anatomy.
See list of dates ASSET is being offered.
Basic Endovascular Skills for Trauma (BEST)
The Basic Endovascular Skills for Trauma™ (BEST™) course is designed to teach endovascular techniques such as Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta (REBOA) to temporize life-threatening hemorrhage.
The course utilizes didactics, simulation models, and perfused cadavers to teach ultrasound-guided common femoral arterial (CFA) access, percutaneous and open cannulation of the CFA, and CFA repair. The course is intended to serve as an introduction to REBOA and lays the foundation for more in-depth training.
Cardiac Surgical Unit-Advanced Life Support (CSU-ALS)
CSU-ALS is a one day course using resuscitation protocols developed originally by UK surgeons back in 2003 which focused on addressing post-operative Cardiac Surgery emergencies. This course is one that is multi-disciplinary (MD, RN, NP, PA, and RT's) and evidenced based, and has been accepted and adopted by the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) here in the US in 2017.
We here at UMMC have been using the STC Simulation lab since we began teaching the course here to our staff in February of 2015. Using both hands-on practice in the lab and didactic sessions in the classroom have led to the successful implementation of this program and have saved countless lives over the past 5 years. This class has and continues to be taught to medical professionals from all across the US, with well over 500 students being trained in these protocols here at UMMC in our Simulation Lab.
Core Concepts of ECMO Therapy
The Core Concepts of ECMO Therapy Course is an innovative 2-day course that includes didactic lecture content presented by experts within the institution and hands-on breakout sessions. Our goal is to provide clinicians of all levels an opportunity to enhance their knowledge of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) therapy, general management of the patient on venovenous or venoarterial ECMO, as well as technical aspects of cannulation. Course content is delivered through didactic lectures, hands-on breakout sessions, expert panel case discussions, high-fidelity simulation, and a cannulation lab.
Disaster Management & Emergency Preparedness (DMEP)
The one-day Disaster and Emergency Preparedness (DMEP) course was developed by the Ad Hoc Committee on Disaster and Mass Casualty Management of the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma.
The course utilizes lectures and interactive scenarios to teaches planning methods, preparedness, and medical management of trauma patients in mass casualty disaster situations.
Health care providers learn incident command terminology, principles of disaster triage, injury patterns, and availability of assets for support.
The course emphasizes an all-hazards approach, emphasizing that many principles apply to disasters of all kinds regardless of specific mechanism.
Surgical problems and the role of surgeons in disasters are emphasized even with non-surgical forms of injury.
The intended audience includes acute care providers—surgeons; anesthesiologists; emergency medicine physicians; emergency room, operating room, intensive care unit, and trauma nurses; and prehospital professionals—who will most likely be the first receivers of casualties following major disasters.
Other health care providers, administrators, public health personnel, and emergency managers are also encouraged to attend.
Emergency Neurological Life Support (ENLS) Course
The Emergency Neurological Life Support (ENLS) Course is designed to help healthcare professionals improve patient care and outcomes during the critical first hours of a patient's neurological emergency.
ENLS demonstrates a collaborative, multi-disciplinary approach and provides a consistent set of protocols, practical checklists, decision points, and suggested communication to use during patient management of neurological emergencies including acute stroke, status epilepticus, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord compression, cardiac arrest, and more.
ENLS is designed for all health care providers who may encounter or provide care for patients with neurological emergencies in the first hour of their emergency care, including paramedics, emergency department physicians, critical care physicians, neurosurgeons, nurses, pharmacists, medical students and resident/fellow trainees.
Fundamental Critical Care Support Course (FCCS)
Fundamental Critical Care Support
The Fundamental Critical Care Support (FCCS) course was developed by the Society of Critical Care Medicine to cover basic critical care topics, including cardiopulmonary/cerebral resuscitation, airways, acute respiratory failure, shock, acute coronary syndromes, neurologic dysfunction, life-threatening infections, electrolyte disturbances, trauma and burns.
The course provides a comprehensive learning experience combining lectures (either in-person or online) with hands-on skill stations.
Stop the Bleed (STB)
Open to both the general public and medical professionals alike, this course teaches you how to provide bleeding control via 3 different techniques to Stop The Bleed. Injuries can happen anywhere and learning how to identify and control bleeding can save a life from any injury! We would like to empower you to make a difference during any bleeding emergency whether it is at home, school, work, or on the side of the road.
This free 1 hour training program from the American College of Surgeons (ACS) will help you to recognize life-threatening bleeding and what you can do to act quickly to help save lives.
