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Course Description

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. 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 a 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.
 
16-hour course for EMTs, paramedics, nurses, physician assistants, physicians and other prehospital providers. Upon successful completion of the course, students receive a certificate of completion, a wallet card recognizing them as PHTLS providers for 4 years, and 16 hours of CAPCE credit. This course may be offered as a classroom course, or a hybrid course where students take 8 hours of the course online followed by 8 hours in the classroom.
 
For more information please check the National Association of EMTs (NAEMT) website for PHTLS.

Learner Outcomes

More information about PHTLS Courses: https://www.naemt.org/education/phtls/phtls-courses
The course utilizes the internationally recognized PHTLS textbook and covers the following topics:
  • Physiology of life and death
  • Scene assessment
  • Patient assessment
  • Airway
  • Breathing, ventilation and oxygenation
  • Circulation, hemorrhage and shock
  • Patients with disabilities
  • Patient simulations

Notes

If you are a student with a documented disability and have not voluntarily disclosed the nature of your disability, we may coordinate the accommodations you need. In that case, you are invited to contact the Disability Support Services Office (DSSO) in 'Ilima 107, ph. (808)734-9552, or email kapdss@hawaii.edu for assistance. For students whose primary disability is Deaf or hard of hearing, contact the Kapi'olani Community College Deaf Center, ph. (808)734-9891 / (808)447-3141(VP) or email jfried@hawaii.edu .

Prerequisites

Hybrid courses require successful completion of online modules. Participants must bring a Course Completion certificate for these online modules to the live skills training and evaluation day.

Enrollment as an EMT or Paramedic student, or practicing as an EMT or Paramedic. PHTLS pretest prior to class.

Participants must complete online modules for ‘Hybrid’ courses prior to the skills testing on the date noted for this course. Please follow the links provided to PSG Learning (on behalf of NAEMT, provided here and at the MEMST site) to enroll in and pay for those respective modules: AMLS Hybrid; PHTLS Hybrid; EPC Hybrid. For non-hybrid NAEMT classes, your KapCC Noncredit Registration is sufficient, but you should purchase and read a current provider manual for the respective course at PSG Learning: EMS Safety; TECC; TECC-LEO. Please note that as MEMST is a busy training center with minimal staffing, we are unable to respond to individual issues on a routine basis.

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