Acknowledgement
The ABC Slide Library and the ABC-Trauma Slide Kit reflect the basic and state-of-the-art knowledge of bleeding care. The future will bring a great number of new innovative treatments, some of which may deliver disappointing results. On the other hand, some may offer successful new options for the treatment of critically bleeding trauma patients.

For this reason, these slide collections should be seen as living documents, which will need to be updated regularly. A full review and update of the material was done in February 2008 to ensure the continued high quality of the slide library and the initiatives for the future. Anyhow, suggestions for improvements or updates to the curricula are most welcome.

As chairs of the ABC and ABC-T initiatives, we would like to thank our grantor Novo Nordisk for financially supporting the initiative with an unrestricted educational grant, and Physicians World GmbH for providing organisational and medical writing support. Special thanks we would like to extend to the members of the ABC and ABC-Trauma European Medical Education Initiative Faculties for their contributions. Without their conscientious work, these excellent curricula could not have been developed.

Prof. Dr. Donat R. Spahn, F.R.C.A.		Prof. Dr. Rolf Rossaint
Chair of the Advanced Bleeding Care Medical Education Initiative		Chair of the Advanced Bleeding Care in Trauma Medical Education Initiative

February 2008

ABC and ABC-T Organiser and Grantor

The activities of the European Medical Education Initiative on Advanced Bleeding Care (ABC) and the European Medical Education Initiative on Advanced Bleeding Care in Trauma (ABC-Trauma) are:

• Managed and organised by Physicians World GmbH, Mannheim, Germany.
• Supported by unrestricted educational grants from Novo Nordisk.