BATTLEFIELD TRAUMA LIFE-SUPPORT - ITS USE IN THE RESUSCITATION DEPARTMENT OF 32-FIELD-HOSPITAL DURING THE GULF-WAR

32 Field Hospital was one of two forward British field hospitals deplo yed during the 1990-1991 Gulf War in northern Saudi Arabia. We describ e the use of Battlefield Trauma Life Support (BATLS), a military deriv ation of Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) as used in the hospital's resuscitation department and discuss the application of ATLS principl es in the military environment, Teaching BATLS to doctors, nurses, and combat medical technicians provided a common system for all departmen t members to work toward. This proved to be an efficient system for ho rizontal casualty management by a trauma team of three people.