Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS)
Pre Hospital Trauma Life Support
The 10th UK edition of the NAEMT Prehospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) course is recognised internationally as the leading program for pre-hospital emergency trauma care. It is designed to improve and promote the importance of critical thinking and excellent trauma care in decreasing mortality in multisystem trauma patients.
The 2-day course is delivered face-to-face combining interactive group lectures, skills stations and coaching and patient simulations.
Course Content
The PHTLS course develops knowledge and skills relating to:
– Physiology of Life and Death
– Scene Assessment
– Patient Assessment
– Airway Management
– Breathing, Ventilation and Oxygenation
– Circulation, Haemorrhage Control and Shock
– Head Injuries
– Special Circumstances such as burns, pregnancy and extremes of age
– Secondary Survey
This course is delivered by a multi-disciplinary faculty working in clinical roles at specialist and advanced levels across multiple settings.
Eligibility
The PHTLS course is appropriate for ECAs/ ECSWs, EMTs, Paramedics, Nurses, ACPs, Doctors and other prehospital providers.
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