AMLS
Course Hours
16
Advanced Medical Life Support
NAEMT’s Advanced Medical Life Support (AMLS) course emphasizes a pragmatic approach and format, based on teaching providers what they need to know. The curriculum is designed to allow for a minimal amount of lecture and an ample amount of actual hands-on physical assessment of patients. AMLS emphasizes the use of the AMLS Assessment Pathway, a systematic tool for assessing and managing common medical conditions with urgent accuracy.
The Initial course is 16 hours over two days.
The Refresher course is 8 hours over one day.
General Course Information
In the fourth edition of AMLS, students learn to recognize and manage common medical crises through realistic case-based scenarios that challenge students to apply their knowledge to highly critical patients. The course emphasizes the use of scene size-up, first impression, history, detailed physical assessment, and interactive group discussion on differential diagnosis and potential treatment strategies to systematically rule out and consider possibilities and probabilities in treating patients’ medical crises. The fourth edition AMLS library of over 75 patient simulations offers students an opportunity to apply critical thinking skills to a variety of patient presentations. Additional features include patient simulation monitor images and ECGs provided by iSimulate, to enhance students’ experience.
Those in both the pre-hospital and trauma settings:
- EMTs
- Paramedics
- Nurses
- Physicians
- Physician Assistants
- Emergency Responders
- Tactical Medics
- On-hands practice will be required during this course and as part of the skills assessments
- All students must perform required skills competently without assistance to receive a certification card
- A written test will be administered for the completion of this course with a passing score of 75%
- Successful completion is based on achievement of the core learning objectives rather than a prescribed instruction time.
- The certification card is included in course good for 2-years
- CPR/AED and Basic First Aid certification strongly recommended before or after this course.
8-hour course for individuals who have successfully completed the 16-hour AMLS provider course within the past four years. Current AMLS provider certificate or wallet card required. Upon successful completion of the course, students receive a certificate of completion and 8 hours of CAPCE credit.
- 16.00 hours – Initial AMLS Course – Continuing Education Units
- 8.00 hours – Refresher AMLS Course – Continuing Education Units
- Upon completion of this course participants will receive a course completion from NAEMT.
- PHTLS is accredited by CAPCE and recognized by NREMT.
All students are eligible to attend and considered for certification without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age (unless specific minimum age requirements are set by the certifying authority), marital status, sexual orientation, medical condition, or disability.
- This Course is developed to provide the necessary training and skills to take the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT) Exam
Basic Course Overview
The interactive/case-based lectures include the following topics:
- Altered Mental Status
- Neurologic Disorders
- Respiratory Dysfunction
- Shock & Sepsis
- Chest Discomfort
- Endocrine Systems
- Metabolic and Environmental Disorders
- Abdominal Discomfort
- Infectious Disease
- Toxicologic Emergencies
- Hazardous Materials
- Weapons of Mass Destruction
Teaching stations follow the associated lectures each day.
Training Goals
- Apply critical thinking skills to integrate pathophysiology with the assessment findings of a medical patient;
- Determine and differentiate between actual and potential patient problems;
- Advance the provider’s ability to conduct a competent medical examination that utilizes proper diagnostic skills, critical thinking, and interventions;
- Advance the provider’s ability to utilize problem-solving strategies in interventions and management alternatives;
- Advance the provider’s ability to communicate the pertinent findings and interventions to the receiving facility
A better prepared you!
Skills labs will include:
- Patient Stabilization & Assessment
- Lung and Airway lab
- Hands-on skills stations for patient assessment
- Scenarios with real case scenarios in the field environment.
AMLS Full Course
INDIVIDUAL PRICING-
16 Hours of Course Instruction
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Skills Lab During Course
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Use of Book During Course
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NAEMT Course Completion Certificate
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16 CAPCE approved Continuing Eduction Units