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Longtime Army Doctor Asks Military to End Animal Trauma Training
It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to understand that using and killing animals in trauma training is cruel and archaic. But 20 years as an Army neurosurgeon and 15 years spent treating civilian trauma provides William Morris, M.D., a solid platform when he speaks out against the military’s use of live ani |
Two New Trauma Training Victories
Medical centers in New Jersey and Saskatchewan have stopped using live pigs for trauma training courses. Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) courses teach emergency medical procedures used to treat trauma injuries. At the University of Saskatchewan College of Medicine and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of |
PCRM Online Archive
June 2013: Read this Issue> Physicians Committee Petitions Air Force to End Animal Use; Watch Dr. Barnard Discuss Power Foods on the ‘Ellen DeGeneres Show’; Toxicity Testing Workshop Recommends Replacing Animal Tests; Kickstart India Returns!; Improving Toxicity Testing through the Chemical Sa |
Human-Based Combat Trauma Training Methods
CAMPAIGN UPDATE: The Future Is Now in Medical Training: PCRM Shows Congress the Power of Medical Simulation > Human-Based Training Methods Because widely validated and accepted nonanimal alternatives for chemical casualty management and combat trauma training courses exist, there is no justif |
Physician Profile: Trauma Training the Modern Way: Marie Crandall, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.S.
Trauma surgeon Marie Crandall, M.D., cares for seriously injured patients at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. She operates on patients with life-threatening injuries, such as stab wounds to the heart or ruptured spleens. And she learned all of her surgical skills using methods based on human anatomy, n |
Doctor Training Shouldn't Cost Animals Their Lives
By John J. Pippin, M.D., F.A.C.C. This opinion piece was published on July 14, 2008, in The Star-Ledger. We all want the best training for medical professionals - but is practicing emergency medical skills on live animals the best way to train our physicians and EMTs in the 21st century? As a cardiologist an |
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 |
Massachusetts General Hospital Urged to Stop Killing Sheep
It’s one of the last facilities in the country still using animals in Advanced Trauma Life Support courses. But in an October demonstration, more than 50 Boston-area residents, PCRM physicians, and even a few Massachusetts General Hospital employees let the hospital know that it can’t continue to kill s |
Frequently Asked Questions: Implementing Nonanimal Training Methods in U.S. Military Medical Courses
Frequently Asked Questions: Implementing Nonanimal Training Methods in U.S. Military Medical Courses Q: What does this medical training entail? A: In U.S. military combat trauma training courses, instructors attempt to replicate combat trauma injuries on live pigs and goats. The animals are subjected to severe |
Mass General Stops Trauma Training on Animals
Massachusetts General Hospital has ended its use of animals in trauma training, after a long effort by PCRM and its member physicians. The move reflects a continued trend away from the use of animals in Advanced Trauma Life Support courses. Of the U.S. and Canadian programs surveyed by PCRM, 95 percent now use n |
Reforming Trauma Training
An accident victim is brought into the emergency room unable to breathe, with internal bleeding, a spinal cord injury, and severe shock. The physician must immediately clear the airway, intubate the patient, complete a diagnostic peritoneal lavage, or perform other lifesaving procedures. These technique |
University of Pittsburgh Slow to Stop Killing Pigs for Trauma Training
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center said it would phase out using and killing pigs in its trauma training course. But more pigs were recently killed. In October, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) agreed to stop using pigs in its trauma training course following a complaint PCRM filed with |
Pigs and Rabbits Saved from Trauma Training in Canada
Thanks to you, PCRM successfully ended the use of live pigs and rabbits in trauma training courses at two Canadian institutions. Now, pigs in Massachusetts need your help. Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) courses at Hamilton Health Sciences at McMaster University previously involved cutting open up to 90 live, |
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Stops Lethal Use of Pigs
Decision Reflects National Move Away from Live Animal Use for Trauma Training WASHINGTON—University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) has officially ended its lethal use of live pigs for trauma training. The medical center had been using live pigs in an Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) course that inv |
Air Force Kills Pigs in Combat Trauma Training Course
Pigs were killed in a combat trauma training course conducted at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Ariz., last weekend. A PCRM legal complaint attempting to halt the training pointed out that human-centered training methods could have saved the pigs and provided Air Force Special Operations pararescue jumpers sup |
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