The Medical
Training Working Group, which is the brainchild of Formula
One medical delegate Gary Hartstein MD, has finalised
its membership and will have its first meeting before the
end of the year. Its first task will be to create a modular
motor sport development course that can be used to train
all trackside personnel from marshals and team members to
paramedics and doctors.
Hartstein said: “This is the
first time that there will be a course tailored specifically
for motor sport and
accessible for anyone that needs it.”
Currently, most trackside doctors are qualified in Advanced
Trauma Life Support (ATLS). Whilst widely regarded as a leading
qualification, it is not tailored to dealing with emergencies
at trackside. Hartstein, who is an instructor on the ATLS
course, said: “It is not the ideal course for motor
sport medicine. It’s a hospital based course and the
work we do is pre-hospital medicine. It requires a location
to put it into the context we are practicing.”
As part
of the new project, Hartstein plans to create trackside simulations
that can provide practice for the whole spectrum
of intervention personnel from fire crews and marshals through
to medical and extrication personnel.
Members have been selected
from motor sport markets all over the world to bring the
widest amount of experience to
the committee. Confirmed members include Carl Gwinnutt (UK),
Alain Chantegret (France), Ronald Denis (Canada), Dino Altmann
(Brazil), Nabeel al-Ansari (Bahrain), Jean Duby ( France),
David Crangston (Great Britain), David Vissenga (Australia),
Gérard Saillant (France), and Masato Kito (Japan).
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