Advanced Trauma Care for Nurse
Advanced Trauma Care for Nurse ( ATCN , English. "Advanced trauma care for nurses" ) is an educational concept that standardized diagnostic and therapeutic courses of action in the early in-hospital first aid to seriously injured ( multiple trauma patients) in emergency room defined.
The concept is based on the Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) concept for doctors. The aim is standardized treatment of an injured person across all occupational groups. The corresponding concept in the rescue service is called Prehospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) .
development
The impetus for the development of the ATLS concept came from an accident of the American trauma surgeon James Styner, who had an accident with his family in a private plane in 1976. The emergency medical first aid was so inadequate that Styner noted serious deficiencies in the medical training for the care of seriously injured people. Various regional working groups were set up on his initiative to develop concepts for first aid for the injured. ATLS was developed by the American College of Surgeons on the basis of this work in the late 1970s . The didactic concepts that the American Heart Association had recently introduced with Advanced Cardiac Life Support were used.
As early as 1982, nursing staff was trained for the first time in the USA according to the ATLS concept. Most of the training took place together with the medical colleagues. After several structural changes, the ATCN concept was finally developed in 1998 under the leadership of the Society of Traumanurses (STN) , an association of nurses who work in trauma care, and was officially recognized two years later by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) . The first international courses followed in 2001. After intensive preparation, ATCN has been trained in Germany since 2011.
concept
The concept is based strongly on the concept of Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS)
→ Main article: Advanced Trauma Life Support # concept
education
The ATCN training takes place in a two-and-a-half-day course and includes both theory and practical exercises using case studies. The theoretical basics are partly imparted together with the medical ATLS, but the exercises are tailored to the activities of the nursing staff.
Individual evidence
- ^ Styner JK: The birth of Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) . Surgeon. 2006 Jun; 4 (3): 163-5. PMID 16764202
- ↑ ATCN development ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ATCN Germany, accessed May 14, 2014.
- ↑ Course structure ATCN Switzerland, accessed on May 14, 2014.
- ↑ AUC course portal ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ATCN courses in Germany, accessed on May 14, 2014.
