EMS 262 EMS Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support (1.5 credits)
Prerequisite Serve in a role as a provider involved in the delivery of trauma patient care.
Course Description
This course is designed for individuals with experience in the medical field as it relates to pre-hospital medical care. The Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) expands the scope of practice of current Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) to provide basic and advanced emergency trauma care. Training will include advanced airway techniques in a trauma patient, tourniquet application, needle decompression, wound packing, disabilities pertaining to traumatic brain injuries and spinal trauma, and other special considerations. Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support is a link from the scene to the emergency health care system.
Course Content
Scene Management and Primary Survey – Safety concerns and observations skills.
A. Airway/ Breathing Management – Anatomy, physiology, management, and artificial ventilation.
B. Circulation – Shock, pathophysiology, causes, and management.
C. Disability – Traumatic brain injury, spinal trauma, special considerations.
D. Students will complete a final written and practical examination per National Association of Emergency Medical Technician (NAEMT) standards.
Student Outcomes
1. Assess, evaluate and differentiate proper treatment modalities due to signs and symptoms of mechanism of injury.
2. Identify different traumatic emergencies and the evaluation of the mechanism of injury.
3. Demonstrate how to properly determine course of treatment for patients after completing a thorough patient assessment.
4. Apply fundamental knowledge of the anatomy, physiology, and treatment modalities of trauma.
5. Form a treatment plan for traumatic injuries in relation to mechanism of injury and based on the index of suspicion as it relates to unseen life-threatening injuries.
Degree Outcomes
Program Outcomes:
1. Evaluate for and address potential hazards to the patient(s), civilians, and emergency management team during an emergency.
2. Access and utilize knowledge necessary to conduct a patient evaluation and administer emergency treatment short of those rendered by advanced life support personnel.
3. Effectively operate and care for equipment used in emergency patient care.
4. Operate as a Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support practitioner using sound judgement; applying rationality, self-awareness, critical thinking and discipline in responding to emergency situations.
5. Communicate essential continuing patient care information to advanced life support personnel.
Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Participants will evaluate, analyze, and synthesize information and ideas in order to construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions.
Effective Communication: Participants will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods. Information Competency: Participants will be able to seek, find, evaluate and use information, and employ information technology to engage in lifelong learning.
Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.
Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.
Lecture Contact Hours 10
Lab Contact Hours 10
Total Contact Hours 20
Potential Methods
A. Participation in specialized didactic/ lab activity by following National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians standards
B. Completing objective written examination
C. Classroom lectures and discussions on relevant case studies
F. Use scenarios to enhance critical thinking skills
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