PHTLS : Pre-hospital Trauma Life Support Course
The PHTLS course is an intensive two-day experience. It emphasises the need for a rapid assessment of the critical trauma patient, treatment of shock and hypoxaemia, and rapid transportation to an appropriate hospital.
Content
- Airway management
- Rapid extrication and assessment
- Surgical airway / chest decompression
- Spinal immobilisation
Learning outcomes
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Recognise the seriousness of traumatic injury as a disease, globally, and within the local community
- Discuss the responder's role and responsibilities in injury prevention
- Understand the use of baseline determinations
- Understand how to carry out a trauma scene assessment
- Manage a safe environment from pre to post incident
- Understand the need to maintain manual stabilisation of the patient's head and spine at all times
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