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Ethics in Trauma Training
The use of live animals in Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) courses was once common. Today, however, the vast majority of these courses use nonanimal teaching tools. Background on ATLS ATLS courses teach procedures designed to respond to acute trauma injuries. These procedures include cricothyroidotomy (an |
This Is No Dummy: With Advanced Human Simulators for Medical Training, Why Harm Animals?
Good emergency medical skills can literally mean the difference between life and death. That’s why it’s so important that health care professionals who use these skills receive the best training available. Many physicians, medical students, and emergency responders go through a crucial training program |
Victory! OU Medical Center Ends Animal Use
The University of Oklahoma Medical Center just confirmed to PCRM that it has stopped killing goats in its trauma training course and now employs nonanimal training methods. But sheep at Massachusetts General Hospital still need your help. Despite thousands of messages from people like you, the hospital killed sheep |
PCRM Online | September 2005
September 2005 Physicians Committee for Respo |
Victory in Alabama! Simulator Replaces Live Pigs in Trauma Training Course
Independence Day came early this year for pigs in Alabama. Just four days after PCRM wrote to ask the University of South Alabama to stop killing pigs in its trauma training course, the university contacted PCRM to learn about superior nonanimal training methods. In the latest course, instructors used the TraumaMan |
PCRM Online | June 2006
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PCRM Online | June 2005
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Two More Trauma Training Courses Go Animal Free
The University of Oklahoma Medical Center and the University of South Alabama both recently announced that they have stopped using animals for trauma training. These facilities join the vast majority of United States trauma training programs, which use only nonanimal methods. Last year, PCRM filed a complaint wit |
You Helped End Pig Deaths at University of Massachusetts
More than 10,000 of you contacted the University of Massachusetts Medical School and urged its dean to end the school’s deadly use of pigs in trauma training courses. He listened. The dean committed to permanently ending animal use in the school’s Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) courses—and h |
Pigs Killed in North Dakota Trauma Training Course
April was a cruel month for pigs. At North Dakota State University, live pigs were unlawfully killed after they were subjected to the trauma of confinement and experimentation. But you can end this unnecessary cruelty. Join PCRM in asking the university to end animal use in its Advanced Trauma Life Support course t |
PCRM Online | May 2006
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