Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support

EMS750 – 16.00 Hours

Schedule

Dates Location Class Price
Details
 12/09/24 – 12/10/24 College Station, TX FP EMS750 1 $275.00 Register
Details
 07/10/25 – 07/11/25 College Station, TX FP EMS750 3 $275.00 Register

This schedule is subject to change without notice. If you have not received confirmation of the class prior to the class start, please contact the division at (866) 878-8900 or [email protected] to get the latest schedule.

Course Description

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.  

PHTLS courses improve the quality of trauma care and decrease mortality.  The program is based on 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 
  • Hemorrhage control 
  • Airway 
  • Breathing, ventilation, and oxygenation 
  • Circulation and shock 
  • Special Populations  

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course.  

Attendance Requirements

Class attendance is an essential part of the education process and participatins in TEEX course are expected to attend all class sessions and field exercises.  

Upon successful completion, you will be able to:

  • 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 faciatlty.

Suggested Audience

  • Emergency Medical Services (EMS)
  • EMTs, Paramedics
  • Hospital personnel, physicians, and nurses
  • City, county, and state medical

Continuing Education And Professional Credits

  • 16.00 hours – Continuing Education Coordinating Board for EMS

Other Information

Upon completion of this course participants will receive a course completion from NAEMT.  PHTLS is accredited by CAPCE and recognized by NREMT.  

Contact Information

Emergency Services Training Institute
Phone: (979) 217-6579
Email: [email protected]

Resources

Students are expected to use the PHTLS: Prehospital Trauma Life Support, Tenth Edition