NAEMT PreHospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) Refresher Course

by NAEMT & SEMSTEC

Date:    Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Time:   0800-1700

Location: Stratford EMS, 2712 Main Street, Stratford, CT  06615

Lecturer: Jack Rodican, NREMT-Instructor

COST: $200.00 (for non-SEMS providers)

Course#: 

CME:  16.0 – NCCR

***THIS IS A REFRESHER COURSE***

(Refresher Course:  8-hour classroom course for individuals who have successfully completed the 16 hour PHTLS provider course within the past four years.  Current PHTLS provider certificate or wallet card required. Upon successful completion of the course, students receive a certificate of completion and 8 hours of CAPCE credit.)

Description:

The Prehospital Trauma Life Support(PHTLS) course is designed for all levels of prehospital care provider personnel. The target audience includes: EMT’s, first responders (fire, police, search & rescue, etc.), paramedics, nurses (including Industrial based Occupational Health Nurses), physicians, and physician assistants.

The PHTLS Course provides the prehospital care provider with specific knowledge and skills related to assessment and care, increasing the probability of a victim surviving a traumatic event. The course is scenario based, with lectures and interactive skills stations designed to impart knowledge and proficiency, dependent on level of licensure.

NAEMT’s Prehospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) is recognized around the world 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.

PHTLS courses improve the quality of trauma care and decrease mortality. The program is based on a philosophy stressing the treatment of the multi-system trauma patient as a unique entity with specific needs. 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 course utilizes the internationally recognized PHTLS textbook and covers the following topics:

• Physiology of life and death
• Scene assessment
• Patient assessment
• Airway
• Breathing, ventilation and oxygenation
• Circulation, hemorrhage and shock
• Patients with disabilities
• Patient simulations

PHTLS is the global gold standard in prehospital trauma education and is taught in 64 countries. PHTLS is appropriate for EMTs, paramedics, nurses, physician assistants, physicians, and other prehospital providers. PHTLS is accredited by CAPCE and recognized by NREMT.

What’s Included: Upon successful completion of the course, students receive a certificate of completion, a wallet card recognizing them as EMS Safety providers for 4 years, and 16 hours of CAPCE credit.