ATLS for consultants...

[Hotz, Heidi, RN]

Ron,

All of our EM physicians have completed ATLS once in their lifetime (thus,
we adhere to the ACS Gold Book criteria.) With regards to our consultants
from Ortho and Neurosurgery, it is not a formal requirement, but we have
some of them become ATLS Instructors because they want to; believe it is
their duty working at a Level I trauma hospital; etc, etc. We have two
orthopedic trauma surgeons that are Instructors. We run two ATLS courses per
year, so they only need to teach once yearly. 

Our County trauma contract and State Regs do not require them to have ATLS. 

Hope this helps. 

Best of luck.

Heidi

Heidi A. Hotz, RN, Trauma Program Manager
Department of Surgery
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
8700 Beverly Blvd. 
Los Angeles, CA 90048
 
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On Behalf Of Ronald Simon
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 6:16 PM
To: trauma-list at trauma.org
Subject: ATLS for consultants...

We are currently having a debate in our State Trauma Advisory Committee 
about whether trauma related consultants (neurosurg, ortho, ent, etc) 
should be required to have taken ATLS to care for a trauma pt. The 
question is whether this should be part of the requirements for trauma 
center designation. No question that members of the trauma service and 
the ED should but what about the subspecialists? Sure its a good concept 
but actually getting them to take it is another thing. What is the 
practice of other trauma systems?
Thanks
Ron Simon, MD
Jacobi Medical Center
Bronx, NY

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