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The Spring-Summer 2010 ITLS Illinois Newsletter is now available!
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Past ITLS Illinois News
ITLS Illinois News - 2009 Vol 3 (Winter)
ITLS Illinois News - 2009 Vol 2 (Summer)
ITLS Illinois News - 2009 Vol 1 (Spring)
Contact the ITLS Illinois Chapter Coordinator
If you need help with anything related to ITLS Illinois, please contact Chapter Coordinator Sue McDonough. Sue has been with ICEP and ITLS for more than 10 years. She works primarily with ITLS International, handling customer service and chapter needs, assisting with global development and exhibiting at conferences. Some ITLS Illinois instructors and affiliate faculty may know her from placing book orders. Please call with any questions or needs – or just to introduce yourself. Sue can be reached at 888.495.4237, ext. 201, or by email at suem@icep.org.
Have You Changed
Your Address?
Course coordinators, medical
directors and affiliate faculty members are urged to update their
mailing and email addresses with ITLS Illinois. Recently, many
messages to these key individuals have been returned as undeliverable.
If you have a new address, or at not
sure if ITLS Illinois has your correct address, contact Sue McDonough at suem@icep.org with the updated information.
ITLS Illinois Policy & Procedure Manual Available
The ITLS Illinois Policy & Procedure Manual has been finalized and can be downloaded (in PDF). The manual includes information about the ITLS chapter structure, descriptions of ITLS certifications and position appointments, and protocols for conduting ITLS courses in Illinois. The manual also contains sample course agendas and mandatory forms used when conducting courses.
Download the ITLS Illinois Policy & Procedure Manual
BTLS Becomes ITLS
With
great fanfare and lots of excitement, in late October BTLS announced
that effective immediately it has been renamed International Trauma
Life Support. An excerpt from the press release follows:
Basic
Trauma Life Support International, the world's leading provider
of training for pre-hospital trauma care, has changed its name to
"International Trauma Life Support."
"The
new ITLS name celebrates the growth and impact of an organization
that began 25 years ago in Alabama ," said John Campbell, MD, FACEP,
president of ITLS and founder of BTLS. "From a small regional program,
we've become the world's most recognized and respected authority
in pre-hospital trauma care training."
ITLS
leaders announced the new identity in Scottsdale, Arizona at
the organization's 2005 International Trauma Conference, attended
by health care professionals from around the world, including
emergency medical technicians, paramedics, nurses, trauma surgeons and
emergency physicians.
The
ITLS organization will begin using the new name and logo immediately.
ITLS will work closely with government agencies to incorporate the
new name into training-related regulations and materials.
The
70 ITLS chapters in the U.S and around the world will have
12 months to implement the new identity, completing the change by
Dec. 31, 2006. Chapters will provide new ITLS certification cards
to the more than 300,000 BTLS-certified providers around the world
when they complete their next recertification or refresher courses.
"Our
new name reflects the scope and quality of the education and resources
we provide," explained ITLS Chairman Walter Bradley, MD, FACEP.
"Far from basic, ITLS is bringing sophisticated, state-of-the-art
training to pre-hospital trauma care providers worldwide ."
To view
the video announcing the change, go to http://www.itrauma.org
For
now, the ITLS courses are the BTLS courses with a transition to
the new course name occurring over the next few years. The
first course expected to have its name changed is Access which is
due for release of the second edition in 2006.
Illinois BTLS is now ITLS
Illinois. Lots
more information about the change will be coming in the months ahead. In the meantime, please contact the ITLS Illinois office if
you have any questions.
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