ACS Case Reviews in Surgery offers in-depth analyses of current and unique surgical cases. Each 10-article issue will teach surgeons effective ways to use the highest-quality surgical research to achieve patient care excellence.

Edited by Jody M. Kaban, MD, FACS, Neil Parry, MD, FRCSC, FACS, and Ronald I. Gross, MD, FACS

The Advanced Trauma Operative Management (ATOM) course increases surgical competence and confidence by teaching proper operative techniques for penetrating injuries to the chest and abdomen. The ATOM 3rd Edition PDF with Digital Rights Management features surgical strategies for penetrating trauma and updated content, selected readings, and tips from the masters.

ATLS ® Student Course Manual, 10th Edition
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The 10th edition of the Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) Student Course Manual reflects several changes designed to enhance the educational content and visual presentation of the prior edition.

Each chapter was rewritten and revised to ensure clear coverage of the most up-to-date scientific content, including updated references. New to the 10th edition are:

• Completely revised skills stations based on unfolding scenarios
• Emphasis on the trauma team, including a new Teamwork section at the end of each chapter and a new appendix focusing on Team Resource Management in ATLS
• Expanded Pitfalls features in each chapter to identify correlating preventive measures meant to avoid the pitfalls
• Additional skills in local hemorrhage control, including wound packing and tourniquet application
• Addition of the new Glasgow Coma Scale
• An update of terminology regarding spinal immobilization to emphasize restriction of spinal motion
• Many new photographs and medical illustrations, as well as updated management algorithms, throughout the manual

The course continues to make use of the MyATLS mobile application. The app is full of useful reference content for retrieval at the hospital bedside and for review at your leisure. Content includes:

• Interactive visuals, including treatment algorithms and x-ray identification
• Just in time video segments capturing key skills
• Calculators, including a pediatric burn calculator to determine fluid administration
• Animations, including airway management and surgical cricothyroidotomy

Students, instructors, coordinators, and educators are encouraged to access and regularly use this important tool.

Price:  $140

ATLS ®  Student Course Manual, 10th Edition, Spanish 

The Spanish-translated 10th edition of the Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) Student Course Manual reflects several changes designed to enhance the educational content and visual presentation of the prior edition. Each chapter was rewritten and revised to ensure clear coverage of the most up-to-date scientific content, including updated references. New to the 10th edition are:

• Completely revised skills stations based on unfolding scenarios
• Emphasis on the trauma team, including a new Teamwork section at the end of each chapter and a new appendix focusing on Team Resource Management in ATLS
• Expanded Pitfalls features in each chapter to identify correlating preventive measures meant to avoid the pitfalls
• Additional skills in local hemorrhage control, including wound packing and tourniquet application
• Addition of the new Glasgow Coma Scale
• An update of terminology regarding spinal immobilization to emphasize restriction of spinal motion
• Many new photographs and medical illustrations, as well as updated management algorithms, throughout the manual

Price:  $75

ATLS^® Student Manual 9th Edition
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The ATLS Program was developed to teach emergency care providers one safe, reliable method for assessing and initially managing the injured patient. The course provides an organized approach for evaluation and management of seriously injured patients and offers a foundation of common knowledge for all members of the trauma team. The emphasis is on the critical "first hour" of care, focusing on initial assessment, lifesaving intervention, reevaluation, stabilization, and, when needed, transfer to a trauma center. This publication was written for use in ATLSStudent Courses and is updated approximately every four years. This ninth edition manual, released in September 2012, features a companion APP to serve as both a bed-side reference tool and supplemental educational resource. You will receive this book if you take an ATLS course.

Price:  $110

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The Disaster Management and Emergency Preparedness (DMEP) manual has been developed for participants in the DMEP course. The DMEP course aims to help trauma and emergency health care professionals develop the necessary skills and understand the language and structural transformation required for effective disaster response and management of mass casualty events. The course developers intend for it to stimulate thought and discussion about how to become better prepared as citizens, professionals, organizations, and systems.

The course teaches an all-hazards approach to disaster management, focusing on key principles that apply to all types of disasters. This one-day course emphasizes the unique role of surgeons in mass casualty situations, and addresses planning, triage, incident command, injury patterns and pathophysiology, and consideration for special populations. The second edition of the DMEP manual was released in March 2018. DMEP course participants will receive a copy of the manual.

The National Trauma Data Standard (NTDS) Data Dictionary is designed to establish a national standard for the exchange of trauma registry data and to serve as the operational definitions for the American College of Surgeons (ACS) National Trauma Data Bank (NTDB) and the Trauma Quality Improvement Program (TQIP). It is expected-and encouraged-that local and state trauma registry committees will move towards extending and/or modifying their registries to adopt NTDS-based definitions. The data, which are submitted according to this standard, are used for all NTDB and TQIP reports, and the NTDS Data Dictionary is an essential abstraction tool for all ACS-verified trauma centers, as well as for NTDB and TQIP participants. This version of the NTDS Data Dictionary is applicable to patients with a 2022 admission year.

The American College of Surgeons Verification, Review, & Consultation Program is designed to assist hospitals in the evaluation and improvement of trauma care and to provide objective, external review of institutional capabilities and performance. This process is accomplished by an on-site review of the hospital by a peer review team experienced in trauma care. The team assesses commitment, readiness, resources, policies, patient care, performance improvement, and other relevant features of the program as outlined in Resources for Optimal Care of the Injured Patient manual. The manual is published by the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma. To download a free PDF, visit the ACS VRC Resources page.

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To order manuals for a RTTDC course, please contact the Trauma Office
at 312-202-5160 or contact your Regional Coordinator directly.

This manual has been developed for participants in the Rural Trauma Team Development Course (RTTDC). The course helps rural facilities create a trauma team of at least three core members, each with defined roles and responsibilities and is taught by personnel from an area's Level I, II, or III trauma center, onsite at the rural facilities. The goal of the course is to teach a team approach to the rapid assessment of trauma victims for injuries that require immediate transfer, using the resources that are specifically available to each team.  You will receive this manual if you take a Rural Trauma Team Development Course.