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ITLS Course (International Trauma Life Support)
Posted on 19 Apr 2022ITLS Provider includes 8 hours of classroom instruction, 8 hours of hands-on skills training, and testing for ITLS Basic or Advanced certification. Innovative skills stations let you practice the abilities appropriate for your level of certification.
The ITLS Course is hands-on and intensive. The primary purpose of the ITLS course is to provide students with the fundamental knowledge and experience necessary to get the trauma patient from scene to surgery in the best possible condition. The ITLS course focuses on the skills necessary to recognize mechanisms of injury; perform an organized, time-efficient assessment; prioritize and perform critical interventions, and appropriately package and transport the trauma patient.
A major focus of the course is the identification of conditions that require immediate transport (“load and go”) in order to save the patient. Lifesaving techniques are taught or reviewed in practical exercises.
Course Content
- Scene Size-up
- Trauma Assessment and Management
- Airway Management
- Thoracic Trauma
- Shock
- Head Trauma
- Spinal Trauma
- Abdominal Trauma
- Extremity Trauma
- Burns
- Paediatric Trauma
- Geriatric Trauma
- Trauma in Pregnancy
- The Impaired Patient
- Trauma Arrest
- Standard Precautions
Skill Stations
- Assessment skills Airway skills
- Thoracic trauma skills
- Vascular access skills
- Spine management skills
- Extremity trauma skills
Who Can Do the Course?
- Doctors-MBBS with any specialisation
- Nurses- GNM/BSC/Post Bsc/MSC
- Paramedics
The course is designed for the prehospital phase of EMS, it is also useful to Medical Students, Emergency Medicine Residents, Registered Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, and Physician Assistants interested in Trauma Care.
