Salvijus Milašius Chief of Military Medical training Center

Resucitation and stabilisation IAW priority

Determination of the patient´s needs

Arrangement for the patient´s transfer (medical evacuation)

Assure that optimum care is provided

ATLS® history

• Plane crash in Nebraska, 1976

• 1 killed, 4 injured

ATLS®

• Injured orthopedic surgeon:

• ” When I can provide better care in the field with limited resources than my children and I received at the primary care facility - there is something wrong with the system and the system has to be changed”

ATLS®

• First course in USA in 1978

• American college of surgeons

• > 40 countries

• (Canada, Denmark, England, Israel, Portugal, Italy, Sweden, etc.)

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