PHTLS
Course Hours
16
Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support
NAEMT’s Prehospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) is recognized as the leading continuing education program for prehospital emergency trauma 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.
The Initial course is 16 hours over two days.
The Refresher course is 8 hours over one day.
General Course Information
PHTLS courses improve the quality of trauma care in your area and decrease mortality. The program is based on a prehospital trauma care philosophy, stressing the treatment of the multi-system trauma patient as a unique entity with specific needs. This may require an approach to the trauma patient that varies from traditional treatment modalities. PHTLS promotes critical thinking as the foundation for providing quality care. It is based on the belief that, given a good fund of knowledge and key principles, EMS practitioners are capable of making reasoned decisions regarding patient care. The PHTLS course is continuously updated and revised to keep up with the advances in the field, ATLS Guidelines and feedback from PHTLS participants.
Course topics include:
- Assessment & Scene Management
- Traumatic Injuries
- Head Trauma
- Spinal Trauma
- Thoracic Trauma
- Abdominal Trauma
- Musculoskeletal Trauma
- Treatment of Burns
- Special Populations
- Geriatric Trauma
- Pediatric Trauma
- Environmental Emergencies
- Civilian Tactical EMS Support (TEMS)
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 – Continuing Education Coordinating Board for EMS
- 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 Course utilizes the internationally recognized PHTLS textbook and covers the following topics:
- Physiology of life and death
- Scene assessment
- Patient assessment
- Hemorrhage control
- Airway
- Breathing, ventilation, and oxygenation
- Circulation and shock
- Special Populations
Training Goals
- Provide a description of the physiology and kinematics of injury
- Provide an understanding of the need for and techniques of rapid assessment of the trauma patient.
- Preform an assessment and treat a trauma patient in the prehospital setting.
- Provide an overview and establish a management method for the prehospital multisystem trauma patient.
- Promote a common approach for the initiation and transition of care beginning with civilian first responders continuing up and through the levels of care until the patient is delivered to the definitive treatment facility.
A better prepared you!
Skills labs will include:
- Ballistic wound packing lab
- Lung and Airway lab
- Hands-on skills stations for patient assessment
- Scenarios with high fidelity manikin in the field environment.
PHTLS 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