
Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support: PHTLS Course
PHTLS is appropriate for EMTs, paramedics, nurses, physician assistants, physicians, and other prehospital providers. PHTLS is accredited by CAPCE and recognized by NREMT.
Prehospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) is recognized around the world as the leading continuing education program for prehospital emergency trauma care. The mission of PHTLS is to promote excellence in trauma patient management by all providers involved in the delivery of prehospital care. PHTLS is developed by NAEMT in cooperation with the American College of Surgeons’ Committee on Trauma. The Committee provides the medical direction and content oversight for the PHTLS program. PHTLS courses improve the quality of trauma care and decrease mortality. The program is based on a philosophy stressing the treatment of the multi-system trauma patient as a unique entity with specific needs. PHTLS promotes critical thinking as the foundation for providing quality care. It is based on the belief that, given a good fund of knowledge and key principles, EMS practitioners are capable of making reasoned decisions regarding patient care. The course utilizes the internationally recognized PHTLS textbook.
ATI’s PHTLS course covers the following topics:
- Physiology of life and death
- Scene assessment
- Patient assessment
- Airway
- Breathing, ventilation and oxygenation
- Circulation, hemorrhage and shock
- Patients with disabilities
- Patient simulations
MFR Training Program Details
Course Location
ATI Flint Campus
4511 Miller Rd.
Suite 100
Flint, MI, 48507
Fees & Payments
$1,500 (Payment plans available)
Does not include book or uniforms. DOES include BLS & PEARS courses.
Payment Plan Details
- $100 Due by 1st day of class
- $350 each month for 4 months
Prerequisites / Enrollment Requirements
- At least 18 years of age or at least 17 years of age and dual-enrolled high school senior.
- High School graduate, a dual-enrolled high school senior, GED holder, Homeschool Equivalency at the High School level, or college graduate with official college transcripts.
- Applicants must disclose any criminal conviction pursuant to the NREMT Criminal Conviction Policy. Applicants are not required to disclose any criminal conviction that has been expunged from the public record or a deferred adjudication that did not result in the entry of a conviction judgment.
- Applicants must pass a background check. A felony conviction will prevent an applicant from passing a background check.
- Applicants must submit to a blood or urine drug and alcohol screen and be drug and alcohol free.