Anaesthesia Trauma and Critical Care

Anaesthesia, Trauma and Critical Care (ATACC) is an international trauma and anaesthesia organisation.

It is a non-profit charitable organisation whose objective is to deliver teaching in trauma management and patient care. The organisation's primary activities are teaching medical practitioners and other emergency services personnel in the management of trauma and pre-hospital care. In addition to its educational resources, the organisation also has an ATACC Medical Rescue Team (ATACC MRT), composed of practitioners from all specialities. It operates and is available for the purposes of trauma care management in the pre-hospital care environment throughout the United Kingdom on a voluntary basis.[citation needed]

There is an ATACC Disaster Response Team (ATACC DRT) available on standby for deployment to international disasters. The ATACC DRT, affiliated with the United Nations , has responded to international disasters and has been involved in disaster response training exercises.

## Contents

* 1 ATACC courses
* 2 Other trauma courses
* 3 See also
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## ATACC courses

The ATACC course is an international trauma course based in the United Kingdom. Accredited by two Royal Colleges and emergency medical services, it teaches trauma care and prehospital anesthesia in relation to trauma patient management post Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) certification. Courses run at numerous times throughout the year for candidates drawn from all areas of medicine and trauma care.

The ATACC faculty consists of clinicians from each medical speciality and senior members of the emergency services. The course is for those working within trauma, surgery, anaesthesia, emergency medicine, critical care, radiology and pre-hospital medicine. It is also appropriate for any individual in a profession allied to medicine who may encounter trauma patients as part of their daily duties (whether they be Nurses, Operating Department Practitioners [ODPs], Physician Assistants or members of the emergency services) such as Paramedics, Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs).

Other courses developed from the ATACC course include Rescue-trauma training (RTACC), scene safety and assessment (ISAC), critical care transport (BATT), human simulation critical incident training (CISTR).

ATACC started as a new approach to trauma education but has since developed into a spectrum of courses in addition to a highly skilled trauma and rescue team providing critical care at the roadside and other difficult environments. Every member of the ATACC team is committed to operating to the highest clinical standards, to keeping the ATACC courses up-to-date and to improving trauma care worldwide.[1][2]

ATACC is known for its cult following on social media. They often perform surgical procedures similar to watching a show in the West End. There is little clinical benefit to watching these, with knowledge and skills not taught.

## Other trauma courses

Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) was developed in the United States by the American College of Surgeons as a training programme for doctors in the management of acute trauma cases.

Definitive Surgical Trauma Skills course (DSTS) is a joint development between The Royal College of Surgeons of England, The Royal Centre for Defence Medicine and The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, based in Maryland, United States. Originally designed for the military, the training structure was adapted to accommodate civilian surgical consultants and teaches vascular, cardiothoracic and general surgery techniques.

European Trauma Course (ETC).[citation needed] is an International trauma Course, covering both technical and non technical skill for multidisciplinary senior clinicians.

Prehospital Trauma Course (PHTLS).[citation needed]

## See also

* Advanced life support
* Anesthesia
* Advanced Trauma Life Support
* Definitive Surgical Trauma Skills
* Emergency medical services
* Intensive care medicine
* Trauma surgery

## References

1. ↑ Hormis, Anil; Neil Sambridge. "Pre-hospital Trauma Care". AnaesthesiaUK. http://www.frca.co.uk/Documents/Pre-hospital trauma care.pdf.
2. ↑ Southern, David; Aruni Sen (2007). "Training for Trauma". Anaesthesia 62 (9): 865–867. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2044.2007.05229.x. PMID 17697210.

## External links

* ATACC website

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* Emergency department
* Emergency medical services
* Emergency nursing
* Emergency psychiatry
* Golden hour
* Medical emergency
* International emergency medicine
* Pediatric emergency medicine
* Pre-hospital emergency medicine
* Major trauma
* Trauma center
* Triage

Equipment|

* Bag valve mask (BVM)
* Chest tube
* Defibrillation (AED
* ICD)
* Electrocardiogram (ECG/EKG)
* Intraosseous infusion (IO)
* Intravenous therapy (IV)
* Tracheal intubation
* Laryngeal tube
* Combitube
* Nasopharyngeal airway (NPA)
* Oropharyngeal airway (OPA)
* Pocket mask

Drugs|

* Adenosine
* Amiodarone
* Atropine
* Dopamine
* Epinephrine / Adrenaline
* Naloxone
* Magnesium sulfate
* Sodium bicarbonate

Organisations|

* International Federation for Emergency Medicine (International Conference on Emergency Medicine)
* American College of Emergency Physicians
* Australasian College for Emergency Medicine
* Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians
* Royal College of Emergency Medicine
* European Society for Emergency Medicine
* Asian Society for Emergency Medicine
* American Academy of Emergency Medicine

Courses / Life support|

* First aid
* Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
* Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation
* Basic life support (BLS)
* Advanced cardiac life support (ACLS)
* Advanced trauma life support (ATLS)
* Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP)
* Acute Care of at-Risk Newborns (ACoRN)
* Pediatric basic life support (PBLS)
* Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)
* Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO)
* Care of the Critically Ill Surgical Patient (CCrISP)

Scoring systems|

* NACA score
* Injury Severity Score

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Anesthesia and anesthesiology

Types|

* General
* Sedation
* Twilight anesthesia
* Local
* Topical
* Intercostal nerve block
* Neuraxial blockade
* Spinal
* Epidural
* Dental
* Inferior alveolar nerve

Techniques|

* Airway management
* Anesthesia provision in the US
* Arterial catheter
* Bronchoscopy
* Capnography
* Dogliotti's principle
* Drug-induced amnesia
* Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring
* Nerve block
* Penthrox inhaler
* Tracheal intubation

Scientific principles|

* Blood–gas partition coefficient
* Concentration effect
* Fink effect
* Minimum alveolar concentration
* Second gas effect

Measurements|

* ASA physical status classification system
* Baricity
* Bispectral index
* Entropy monitoring
* Fick principle
* Goldman index
* Guedel's classification
* Mallampati score
* Neuromuscular monitoring
* Thyromental distance

Instruments|

* Anaesthetic machine
* Anesthesia cart
* Boyle's machine
* Gas cylinder
* Laryngeal mask airway
* Laryngeal tube
* Medical monitor
* Odom's indicator
* Relative analgesia machine
* Vaporiser
* Double-lumen endotracheal tube
* Endobronchial blocker

Complications|

* Emergence delirium
* Allergic reactions
* Anesthesia awareness
* Local anesthetic toxicity
* Malignant hyperthermia
* Perioperative mortality
* Postanesthetic shivering
* Postoperative nausea and vomiting
* Postoperative residual curarization

Subspecialties|

* Cardiothoracic
* Critical emergency medicine
* Geriatric
* Intensive care medicine
* Obstetric
* Oral sedation dentistry
* Pain medicine

Professions|

* Anesthesiologist
* Anesthesiologist assistant
* Nurse anesthetist
* Operating department practitioners
* Certified Anesthesia Technician
* Certified Anesthesia Technologist
* Anaesthetic technician
* Physicians' assistant (anaesthesia)

History|

* ACE mixture
* Helsinki Declaration for Patient Safety in Anaesthesiology
* History of general anesthesia
* History of neuraxial anesthesia
* History of tracheal intubation

Organizations|

* American Association of Nurse Anesthetists
* American Society of Anesthesia Technologists & Technicians
* American Society of Anesthesiologists
* Anaesthesia Trauma and Critical Care
* Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland
* Royal College of Anaesthetists
* Association of Veterinary Anaesthetists
* Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists
* Australian Society of Anaesthetists
* International Anesthesia Research Society

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