J.Jpn. Surg. Soc.
ISSN 1880-1129

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J.Jpn. Surg. Soc.. 118(5): 513-520, 2017

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THE DEFINITIVE SURGICAL TRAUMA CARE COURSE

1) Department of Emergency Medicine, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
2) Traumatology and Critical Care Medicine, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
3) Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Tokyo Medical University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
4) IATSIC Japan Chapter
5) Education Committee of DSTC

Takashi Fujita1)4), Yasumitsu Mizobata2)4), Tetsuya Sakamoto1)4), Tetsuo Yukioka3)4), Kenneth D Boffard5)

The Definitive Surgical Trauma Care (DSTC) course is presented on behalf of the International Association for the Surgery of Trauma and Surgical Intensive Care (IATSIC). The IATSIC is part of the International Society of Surgery and since 1988 has become the international forum for trauma surgery. It was introduced into Japan in 2013 under the enthusiastic supervision of Professor Ken D. Boffard, chairman of the Education Committee of the DSTC. The course is designed to assist surgeons in their involvement in acute-care surgery and decisions relating to serious trauma. It assumes all of the Japan Advanced Trauma Evaluation and Care (JATEC) or Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) principles and builds on them. If JATEC/ATLS deals with the “first hour,” this course targets the next “second hour” for definitive surgical care. More than 250 courses had been conducted around the world as of 2016.

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