Company:International Trauma Anesthesia and Critical Care Society
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An international not-for-profit scientific foundation and professional association active in over 40 countries with over 1,000 members.
' About ITACCS Trauma ranks first as the cause of death for persons up to age 40 and third for all age groups. The recent past has witnessed a redefinition of the term "traumatologist," which now includes not only trauma surgeons, but emergency medicine physicians and anesthesiologists, other physician and nonphysician trauma care specialists, as well as nonclinical personnel such as epidemiologists. In 1988, ITACCS was originally formed as a professional society to further the development of anesthesia care providers as traumatologists, to be a forum for them to share ideas and techniques for managing trauma patients, and to provide an educational framework to train and nurture trauma anesthesia/critical care specialists (TA/CCS). Since then, ITACCS, which also operates under the names International Trauma Care and Trauma Care International, has evolved into the leading international multidisciplinary society dedicated to improving the care of trauma patients. The society is an international '-International Trauma Anesthesia and Critical Care Society
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