EMS 820 - Prehospital Trauma Life Support
Last Date of Approval: Fall 2021
1 Credits
Total Lecture Hours: 15
Total Lab Hours: 0
Total Clinical Hours: 0
Total Work-Based Experience Hours: 0
Course Description:
This course is designed to provide the student with the knowledge and skills that will be necessary for the Paramedic or other prehospital emergency medical providers as they care for patients in emergency trauma situations. The course is based on the current National Association of Emergency Medical Technician’s Pre-hospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) curriculum. This course is offered pass/fail. Upon successful completion of this course, students will gain knowledge that will allow them to have a positive impact on the lives of their patients while providing emergent medical care within the communities that they serve.
Corequisites: EMS 771
Prerequisites: Students must have EMT or higher EMS certification or RN licensure.
Mode(s) of Instruction: traditional/face-to-face
Credit for Prior Learning: This course offers an opportunity for students to earn Credit for Prior Learning for skills that they have brought with them to Iowa Central. For more information, please ask the instructor and see the Iowa Central Community College catalog.
Course Fees: None
Common Course Assessment(s): NAEMT psychomotor assessments
Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives:
Student Learning Outcomes:
a. At the completion of this course participants will understand the concepts and methodologies of prehospital trauma life support. Participants will be able to utilize those concepts and methodologies to successfully treat an adult and/or pediatric patient experiencing an emergency trauma situation.
Course Objectives:
a. Recognize the most common traumatic injury patterns in the adult, geriatric or pediatric patient.
b. Demonstrate appropriate assessment techniques for the adult, geriatric or pediatric trauma patient.
c. Demonstrate appropriate treatment of a variety of traumatic injuries in the adult, geriatric or pediatric patient.
d. Demonstrate understanding of the physiology of trauma and kinematics of trauma.
e. Develop priorities for the management of a variety of traumatic injuries.
f. Low, medium, and high-fidelity simulation may be utilized to obtain psychomotor outcomes for this course.
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