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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 multisystem 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.
The Committee on Trauma of the American College of Surgeons provides the medical direction and content oversight for the PHTLS program. They are represented by the medical directors on the Executive Council of the PHTLS Division of the National Association of EMTs. (Reproduced from the PHTLS 5th edition Instructor Text-Copyright 2003, Mosby, Inc.)
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]
See also [Program Information]
Serving on the PHTLS Committee are:
Will Chapleau: PHTLS Chair
Greg Chapman: PHTLS Vice Chair
Norman E. McSwain Jr.: PHTLS Medical Director
Jeffrey P. Salomone: PHTLS Associate Medical Director
Jeffrey S. Guy: PHTLS Associate Medical Director
Peter Pons: PHTLS Associate Medical Director
Steve Mercer: Education & Research
Dennis Rowe: Committee Member
Augie Bamonti: Committee Member/Region 2 Coordinator
Craig Jacobus: Committee Member/Region 3 Coordinator
Michael Hunter: Committee Member/Region 1 Coordinator
Mary-Ann Clarkes: Communications
Frank Butler: Consultant to the Committee on Military Medicine
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