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 through global education. 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 in your area and decrease mortality. The program is based on a prehospital trauma care philosophy, stressing the treatment of the multi-system 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 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 PHTLS course is continuously updated and revised to keep up with the advances in the field, ATLS Guidelines and feedback from PHTLS participants. Although PHTLS originated in the United States, it has evolved and now serves as an international education program available to EMS providers in countries around the world.
Options for obtaining your own PHTLS text book 10th Edition for this class are as follows:
You may purchase the book online
You may purchase the book in a book store;
You may rent or purchase a digital copy of the textbook
Search online for either PHTLS Text Book 10th Edition OR PHTLS eBook 10th Edition.
You must have a PHTLS text book to enter the class.
Volunteer EMTs must provide proof of affiliation with a volunteer EMS agency by providing a letter stating they are a member in good standing with the EMS agency and signed and dated by either the President, Chief or Captain of the agency.
For any questions, please call 201-833-3010.