Statements from ATLS Programs Around the World
Replacing animals with human patient simulators for our Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) training has been a true game-changer. Unlike using animals, simulators are better at replicating human anatomy, cheaper and ethically more appropriate. Since we received the TraumaMan simulator donation from PETA, I have never participated in another animal lab.
—J Esteban Foianini MD, FACS Surgeon and Medical Director, Clinica Foianini, Santa Cruz, Bolivia; Member, Central Committee of the Committee on Trauma of the American College of Surgeons; Past-Chair, ATLS Bolivia; Past-President, Panamerican Trauma Society; Past-Governor, American College of Surgeons
The Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons is grateful for PETA’s donation of advanced TraumaMan human simulators that will provide realistic state-of-the-art training to surgeons and spare animals from being used in Advanced Trauma Life Support courses. The TraumaMan simulators will greatly help Ghana in her efforts to improve care for injured patients.
—Dr. George Oduro, chair of emergency medicine at the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Thanks to a generous donation by PETA of advanced and realistic TraumaMan human simulators, surgeons in Iraq can avoid using … animals in trauma training and will be better prepared [to] treat people suffering from traumatic injuries.
— Dr. Anees Nile, director of the ATLS program in Iraq
We in the College of Medicine at the University of Babylon are highly appreciating PETA’s efforts to maintain animals’ rights. We appreciate PETA’s donation of realistic TraumaMan human simulators to achieve our mission to save more trauma victims’ lives in Iraq.
—Professor Mohend Alshalah, Dean of the College of Medicine, University of Babylon, Iraq
ATLS Kenya is proud to be able to train physicians to treat traumatic injuries using effective human simulation technology instead of live animals while also reducing the cost of this critical training, thanks to a generous donation of advanced TraumaMan models from PETA. Participants in the Advanced Trauma Life Support program will now be able to learn lifesaving procedures without practicing surgical procedures on animals.
—Dr. Daniel Ojuka, ATLS course director at ATLS Kenya, part of the Kenya Red Cross Society.
We are grateful for PETA’s generous donation, which supports Saudi Arabia’s ATLS program in its commitment to replace the use of sheep and goats with durable TraumaMan models that better replicate human anatomy. This advancement strengthens training quality while eliminating animal suffering in ATLS courses. Thank you, PETA!
— Dr. Saud Al Turki, chair of Saudi Arabia’s Advanced Trauma Life Support program
PETA’s donation of life-like human TraumaMan simulators to the [ATLS] program in Sudan will greatly improve skills training for surgeons that benefits patients, save our program money, and allow us to avoid the outdated and unethical use of animals in surgical training.
— Dr. Dia Ageib, chair of Sudan ATLS
[T]hings are deteriorating after a military coup. Regarding the ATLS, I would say [PETA’s TraumaMan donation] has positive impact on trauma victims and a lot of protesters were saved by our trained ATLS providers in the scene and hospitals during the period of unrest.
— Dr. Dia Ageib, chair of Sudan ATLS
ATLS Albania greatly appreciates PETA’s generous donation of realistic TraumaMan models to our Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) national program, which will allow physicians to learn how to effectively treat life-threatening injuries without practicing on animals. No longer will sheep or any other animals be used in our ATLS training, and we look forward to permanently switching to modern animal-free simulation technology that will reduce training costs, improve patients’ health, and spare animals’ lives.
—Agron Dogjani, M.D., Ph.D., National Chair of ATLS Albania, Professor of Surgery at the University of Medicine, Tirana
