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PHTLS

Pre Hospital Trauma Life Support

The Trauma Committee is striving to improve the medical care provided to trauma victims in the UAE. After introducing the ATLS courses for doctors, the Pre - Hospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) course for personnel involved in the Pre Hospital care of trauma victims has been introduced. 

HISTORY OF THE PHTLS

In 1981, shortly after the development of the ATLS^® Course, the ACS/COT, and the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) entered into a cooperative agreement to develop an ATLS^® Course for pre-hospital providers. This was appropriately named "Pre-hospital Trauma Life Support" (PHTLS). By 1984, the first course was run in New Orleans, USA. Since that time, it has been brought into fourteen other countries and trained a total of approximately 200,000 EMTs, paramedics, nurses, physicians, civilian and military.

As indicated in the studies on the effects of the ATLS^® Course and the PHTLS, the PHTLS makes the emergency health care providers better prepared to treat severely injured trauma patients; the before and after analysis demonstrated that the addition of the PHTLS to the training of physicians produces a significant increase in trauma survival.

In the United States, the PHTLS is nationally endorsed. It is widely adopted, as a continuing educational program, by hospitals, educational institutions and EMS agencies. In addition, PHTLS can be incorporated into initial and refresher EMT and paramedic courses.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

The primary goals of the PHTLS are as follows:

• to provide a description of the physiology, patho-physiology, and kinetics of injury;
• to provide an understanding of the need for a rapid assessment of the trauma patient;
• to advance the participant's level of knowledge in regard to examination and diagnostic skills;
• to advance the participant's level of competence in regard to specific pre-hospital trauma intervention skills; and
• to provide an overview and establish a management method for the pre-hospital care of the multi-system trauma patient.

ABOUT THE COURSE

The PHTLS Provider Course is an intensive two-day course.

The lecture topics and skill stations include:

Lectures

• Course Purpose
• Kinematics of Trauma
• Patient Assessment
• Airway Management & Ventilation
• Thoracic Trauma
• Shock & Fluid Replacement
• Abdominal Trauma/Trauma in Pregnancy
• Head Trauma
• Spine Trauma
• Extremity Trauma
• Thermal Trauma
• Essentials in Pre-hospital Trauma Care
• Paediatric Trauma
• Geriatric Trauma

Skills Stations

• Baseline
• Assessment I & II
• Airway Management
• Rapid Extrication
• Spinal Immobilization
• Paediatric Assessment / Immobilization

This Course requires the participants to study the course materials and prepare for the course before they come as well as to actively participate during the Course. Therefore, participants will receive their Provider Course Manuals about four weeks prior to the Course to ensure each participant has enough time to prepare well before they come to the Course.

Criteria for successful completion of the PHTLS Course include:

• attend the entire course;
• adhere to course content and demonstrate practical skills as outlined in the PHTLS textbook;
• achieve a minimum score of 75% on the written post-test; and
• Successfully complete a final assessment station as team leader.

The valid recognition period for an initial PHTLS provider is four years. 

TARGET PARTICIPANTS

• Personnel who are involved in pre-hospital trauma care and committed to pre-hospital trauma care education
• Clinical and nursing staff who are interested in pre-hospital trauma care and committed to pre-hospital trauma care education
• Police and Army, civil defense personals
• Airport, Seaport and other transport related personnel.
• All Ambulance crew and any crew involved in transporting injured or dealing with injured
• Work Place safety personnel.

Venues:

1. Dubai Health Authority Training Center

2. Fujairah Hospital, Fujairah

3. Tawam Hospital, Al Ain

Course Dates for Dubai Center

 For Further information Kindly contact

  Coordinator for DUBAI

   Ms. Bindu Misbahudden,

        DHA Training Center                           

        Dubai

        United Arab Emirtaes

        Phone: +971 4 219 1951

 Coordinator for FUJAIRAH

   Ms. Amina Hasan

         Fujairah Hospital

        email:  phtlsuae@yahoo.com