Anaesthesia Trauma and Critical Care - ATACC Courses

ATACC Courses

Anaesthesia, Trauma and Critical Care (ATACC) Course is an international trauma course based in the United Kingdom. Accredited by two Royal Colleges and various UK emergency medical services, it teaches trauma care and 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 various emergency services. For this reason, the ATACC course is a multi-disciplinary course especially suited for all specialties and is ideal 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, Physician Assistants or members of the emergency services) such as Paramedics, Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs).

The courses teach trauma management as a continuum, from the roadside through to critical care and, as such, include both pre-hospital and in-hospital care of trauma patients.

Numerous other courses have been developed from the ATACC course including 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.