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ATLS course held at the Semmelweis Simulation Center

By Judit Szabados-Dőtsch
For the first time, the Semmelweis Simulation Center hosted an ATLS (Advanced Trauma Life Support) course, which ensures the care of seriously injured patients based on a protocol and curriculum standardized in 40 countries. The training program has been available in Hungary since 2006, and it was the 52nd occasion that the theoretical and practical course held in mid-October was offered in Budapest. On the closing day of the program, we accompanied the instructors behind the scenes and the students through the key stages of the final examination required to qualify as an orthopedic traumatologist.

At 6:00 a.m., an experienced and well-knit team is unpacking into the rooms of the Semmelweis Simulation Center in Ernő Street. They are equipping four rooms of the hospital’s trauma care unit with the necessary tools to treat four different cases. The briefing of the ‘victims’, who are also experienced in acting out the symptoms of each medical condition, has also started. This year, Semmelweis University has hosted the ATLS course for the first time, which is compiled, supervised, and updated every four years by the American College of Surgeons, says Dr. Tamás Bodzay, Director of the Department of Traumatology and President of the Hungarian Society for Traumatology, which supervises the training in Hungary.

Melinda Katalin Kiss
Translation: Judit Szabados-Dőtsch
Photos by Bálint Barta – Semmelweis University