Prehospital Trauma Life Support
Life EMS Ambulance is pleased to announce course offerings for Prehospital Trauma Life Support. 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 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 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.

Although PHTLS originated in the United States, it has evolved and serves very much as an international program, now available to EMS providers in 33 countries. [PHTLS International]