The PHTLS Instructor/Coordinator Workshop is designed to be an intensive 8-hour course for those individuals who have previously successfully completed a PHTLS Provider course.

This course is designed to train instructor candidates for conducting provider and refresher courses on the latest philosophies and techniques. Individuals selected to attend this workshop with typically be experienced instructors, coordinators, or administrators with proven clinical skills.

Prehospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) courses are nationally recognized continuing education programs for prehospital emergency health care professionals that bring the care of the trauma patient into a single focus.

PHTLS courses provide a prehospital trauma care philosophy, stressing the need to treat the multisystem trauma patient as a unique entity with specific needs. This may require an approach to the trauma patient that varies from traditional treatment modalities.

PHTLS courses are based on the Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS), a course for physicians developed by the American College of Surgeons-Committee on Trauma. More importantly, PHTLS courses follow the principles of care of trauma patients as developed by the Committee on Trauma.

The Committee on Trauma of the American College of Surgeons provides the medical direction and content oversight for the PHTLS program. They are represented by the medical directors on the Executive Council of the PHTLS Division of the National Association of EMTs. (Reproduced from the PHTLS 6th edition Instructor Text-Copyright 2007), Mosby, Inc.

Please contact us if you are interested in scheduling this course.