The Mary T. and
Frank L. Hoffman
Family Foundation
and All-Creatures.Org
Letters and Responses
14 November 2008
James J. Barba, President and CEO
Albany Medical Center
43 New Scotland Avenue, Mail Code 114
Albany, NY 12208Dear President Barba:
We are residents of New York State who live only 30 miles south of Albany; but we had no idea that Albany Medical Center still utilizes pigs in Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) courses.
Please see to it that pigs are replaced by a surgical simulator such as Simulab's TraumaMan or SimMan. These are approved by the American College of Surgeons, the ATLS oversight body. A New England Journal of Medicine article describes inanimate models as “safe, reproducible, portable, readily available, and cost- effective.”
Thank you.
Yours sincerely,
Frank L. Hoffman
Mary T. Hoffman
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