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PHTLS- Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support

Course ID: EMS-3200O4
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NAEMT's Prehospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) is recognized around the world as the leading continuing education program for prehospital emergency trauma care. PHTLS courses improve the quality of trauma care and decrease mortality. Learn the philosophy of treating the multi-system trauma patient as a unique entity with specific needs. Develop critical thinking skills as the foundation for providing quality care. PHTLS believes that given a good fund of knowledge and key principles, you, the EMS practitioner, are capable of making reasoned decisions regarding patient care.

The mission of PHTLS is to promote excellence in trauma patient management by all providers involved in the delivery of prehospital care. PHTLS is developed by NAEMT in cooperation with the American College of Surgeons' Committee on Trauma. The Committee provides the medical direction and content oversight for the PHTLS program.

Course Objectives

Identify the mechanism of injury

Recognize life-threatening injuries

Relate pathophysiology to injuries

Assess and manage trauma patients

Perform appropriate interventions

Outline of Instruction

Physiology of Life and Death

Scene and Primary assessment

Airway, Breathing, & oxygenation

Circulation, Hemorrhage, and shock

Patients with disabilities

Patient simulations