PHTLS Refresher Course
One day of trauma skills and scenarios that renews your PHTLS provider card. For PHTLS or ITLS completed within the past four years.
- In Person
NAEMT Courses
Prehospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS)
The 16-hour NAEMT trauma course: scene and patient assessment, bleeding control, airway, shock and special populations, with hands-on scenarios.
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Overview
PHTLS is the NAEMT trauma course developed with the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma. Over 16 hours you work through scene size-up, primary survey, hemorrhage control, airway and ventilation, shock, head and spinal injury, pain management and special populations, using case studies, skills stations and patient simulations. Take it in class over two days, or hybrid: 8 hours online at your own pace, then an 8-hour skills day. Current edition: 10th.
What You Will Learn
- Run a systematic scene assessment and primary survey on a trauma patient
- Control life-threatening hemorrhage with direct pressure, packing and tourniquets
- Manage airway, ventilation and shock in the injured patient
- Adapt trauma care for pediatric, geriatric and pregnant patients
- Make transport and destination decisions based on injury severity
Who Should Attend
EMRs, EMTs, AEMTs, paramedics, nurses, PAs, physicians and other prehospital practitioners.
Prerequisites
- None formal
- Hybrid option: complete the 8-hour PHTLS online course (bought separately from the publisher) before the skills day
Schedule
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Questions About This Course
You complete the 8-hour PHTLS online course at your own pace, then join us for an 8-hour day of skills stations and scenarios. You need to finish the online part before the skills day.
Four years. Renew it with the 8-hour PHTLS Refresher before it expires.
Open a course, pick a session and select Reserve Seat, then pay on our secure payment page by card or bank account (ACH). Paying online adds a processing fee, and you see the exact total before you pay. Your seat is confirmed as soon as the payment goes through. To pay by card over the phone or an agency purchase order instead, reserve your seat, then contact us. If no date works for you, request one.
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