title: Advanced Trauma Life Support laboratory: pilot implementation and evaluation.
abstract: Selected invasive diagnostic and therapeutic techniques were taught to emergency physicians through modular Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) animal laboratory courses presented in the fall of 1977. Thirty-seven emergency physicians participated in the four pilot ATLS laboratories in which the average trainee:animal:instructor ratio was 2:1:0.75. The animals consisted of 15 large baboons and five large rhesus monkeys. Cost accounting on these pilot ATLS courses revealed that the total program cost was $15,581.86, for an average of $3,895.46 per trauma laboratory course and $421.13 per emergency physician trained. The ATLS concept is ready for development into a nationally-standarized ATLS series.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002404:Catheterization; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D003479:Curriculum; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000193:education*; D000882:Haplorhini; D006254:Hawaii; D007442:Intubation, Intratracheal; D007753:Laboratories; D008253:Macaca mulatta; D010215:Papio; D010865:Pilot Projects; D014947:Wounds and Injuries