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PHTLS Division News-November/December 2004 (posted January 22nd, 2005)
The EMS Expo held in Atlanta, Georgia, proved to be very busy for PHTLS. The activities began with a PHTLS Instructor course held preconference at the Hilton on October 20, 2004. Nineteen Instructor Candidates successfully completed the program coordinated by Nita Ham and facilitated by both Georgia faculty and members of the EC.
The PHTLS Division Meeting was held at the Georgia World Congress Centere, and was attended by both National and International members. The meeting began with the "Report from the Chair" delivered by Chief Will Chapleau. The report discussed the continuing success of the 5th edition text and corresponding provider programs (27,768 providers trained in 2003; 14,587 trained so far in 2004); the continued promulgation of PHTLS into new areas and countries, with Scotland and Spain developing new sites internationally; and several new translations now available with texts being published in Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Italian and French (the 5th edition text in Greek will be available soon). The new military version of the 5th edition is also available for use by military personnel, including an amended written evaluation an dfinal scenarios to accompany the new text. The full report is available in pdf format on the website at http://www.phtls.org/outlook2004notes.htm
Dr. Norman McSwain reported on the American College of Surgeons and the Military, and Dr. Jeffrey Salomone spoke on the 6th edition text due out in the summer/fall of 2006. A Mosby representative was also on hand to talk about plans for the new edition, which include a few Text/Skills CD-ROM, as well as an IM/PowerPoint CD-ROM packages together.
Delegates attending the meeting had an opportunity to introduce themselves and report on their particular area of responsibility. Afterwards, delegates split into breakout groups relative to their area of interest: International, Website, Military and Coordinator groups. These discussions were extremely valuable to the EC in bringing new informaiton and fresh ideas from the field.
Several PHTLS Appreciation awards were presented, including Augie Bamonti, Mark Leuder, Merry McSwain, Dutch translation faculty, Italian translation faculty, French translation faculty and Brazilian Spanish translation faculty.
This gathering also provided an opportunity for celebration as PHTLS is now into its 20th year of operations, marked with a ceremonial cake cutting NAEMT Immediate Past President John Roquemore, Dr. Norman McSwain and Chief Will Chapleau.
This year's Scott B.Frame Memorial Lecture was presented by David B.Hoyt,MD,FACS,Burn and Surgical Intensive Care Chief at University of California-San Diego Medical Center. Dr. Hoyt spoke of "The History and Current State of Prehospital Fluid Therapy" to an appreciative audience; he was well received and fielded some good questions afterwards. As is customary, the Scott B.Frame Service Award was presented after the lecture to this year's recipient, Steven Mercer. Steve was not able to attend the conference but did accept his award via speakerphone from his home in Iowa.
The Dr. Norman E.McSwain Jr. PHTLS Leadership Award was presented to Chief Will Chapleau at the NAEMT Awards dinner. Although this award is not typically presented to EC members, Chief Chapleau's past and continued contributions made him an obvious choice.
The NAEMT Website committee met with Net On-Line during the conference. The committee was led by Connie Meyer of NAEMT and attended by a number of stakeholders including individuals representing the education websites: PHTLS, AMLS, and PPC. Criteria for the look and feel of the new website was presented and discussed. The new website should be launched somtime early next year. As a reminder: A new version of the NAEMT education software (V1.03) is now available for download at http://www.naemt.org/software along with an updated manual in pdf.
PHTLS Division News-September/October 2004 (posted January 22nd, 2005)
Work continues on the upcoming PHTLS sixth edition text, including an August editorial board meeting in Denver to facilitate the review process for completed chapter drafts. This new text will be published in 2006.
The new Spanish translation of the fifth edition text has now been published and is available from Mosby and its subsidiaries. This release is especially timely, with new coordinating faculty holding programs in Spain from September 20 to 27 with Chief Will Chapleau, PHTLS Chairperson; Jeffrey Guy,MD, PHTLS associate medical director; and Enrique Montbrun,MD,PHTLS coordinator-Venezuela. Original Spanish faculty attended programs in the US in July.
In addition to this new civilian faculty, military faculty began offering programs in Spain in July. HM2 James Adwell wrote: "For the past two years, we have been working with Chris Luna [military coordinator] and the staff at DMRTI with the future goal of bringing PHTLS to Naval Hospital Rota, Spain, to support the fleet, our troops and our surrounding community. It is with great pleasure that I can finally say we have conducted our first official instructor and provider course in July 04. After this, we will also be taking over as the European affiliate. Due to the popularity of the program and the continual need for advanced trauma training in the military, medical personnel from other European locations attended our first program."
PHTLS has many events scheduled at EMS Expo in Atlanta, Georgia, October 19 to 23. The Instructor Workshop will be held on October 20, from 8a.m. to 5p.m. The annual PHTLS Division Meeting is scheduled for October 21. Also on October 21 is the Scott Frame Memorial Lecture at 7p.m. This year, David B.Hoyt,MD,FACS, will be speaking on "The History and Current State of Prehospital Fluid Therapy" Room numbers and relevant details will be posted and noted within your registration materials. If you still haven't registered for this conference, go to http://www.naemt.org and click on "Annual Meeting" for registration information.
As always, if you have comments or contributions for the website or newsletter, please contact me at phtls2maryann@telus.net. Remember too, that listservers are available for your use at: http://www.phtls.org/listserv.htm
PHTLS Division News-July/August 2004 (posted January 22nd, 2005)
The PHTLS Instructor/Coordinator is integral to the delivery of PHTLS philosophies and process to those providers who can best effect change with improved trauma patient outcomes. And so, training new faculty in new areas where PHTLS has never been before is important.
Thirty-four new faculty at four new sites have attended Instructor Workshops and completed required provisional teaching with the last three months in Canada: Ottawa, Ontario, Dartmouth and Metaghan River, Nova Scotia; and Moncton, New Brunswick. Also in Canada, Stephane Kallos, based in Montreal, has accepted the position of Coordinator for the province of Quebec; contact information is listed on the PHTLS website.
PHTLS News from the South: We wanted to update everyone on PHTLS in Sunflower County, Mississippi. Our volunteer first responder non-profit corporation, the Sunflower County Emergency Medical Response Association, applied for an educational grant from the Delta Trauma Care Region board of directors. We applied for and received $2,400.00 to train 40 medical first responders in PHTLS. That's $60.00 per person, which is more than enough to purchase the books and handle incidental printing costs and consumable supplies for the class.
We have around 50 volunteers. Asking for funds for 40 took into account that not all of them would take the class this year. We are, however, charging them $15.00 per person for two reasons: It covers the administrative/certification fee for NAEMT, and it gets the volunteers to invest something in the training, which means they'll be more likely to complete it.
I've never been one to blow my own horn, but I'll be very proud of our people once we get them trained. To get 40 will require at least one more (if not two) classes this year, not counting the one we had scheduled for April.
We focus so much effort on trauma because about 32 to 37 percent of the patients our first responders see annually are trauma patients. When I first took PHTLS last year, I was really impressed with it. We ran a pilot course in Sunflower County with six of our volunteers, and they absolutely loved it. It is intense and fast-paced, but that adds to the experience.
Thanks for all your help and support. - Jim Whitfield, Indianola, Mississippi
PHTLS Division News-May/June 2004 (posted May 4th, 2004)
A PHTLS Science Symposium was held at the EMS Today conference which took place in Salt Lake City, Utah in March. 60 participants engaged the text authors and PHTLS EC members in various topics relevant to trauma care. This is the first time that a PHTLS Science Symposium has been offered as part of the JEMS conference, and plans are in motion to hold another [Symposium] next year.
The PHTLS program continues to expand into new territory. Chief Will Chapleau along with UK Faculty traveled to Scotland in March to facilitate their inaugural program Welcome to Dr. Neil Pryde and the new faculty members in Scotland. Canada also welcomes new faculty in the Maritime Provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, trained in April and May respectively.
The 5th edition’s success persists, demonstrated through the latest tally of 62,344 Provider Texts, 8,056 Instructor Manuals and 533 PowerPoint CD/slides sold from August 2002 to February 2004. From January to March 2004, 717 PHTLS courses have been registered for the year; during that same time frame, 1366 students have been trained.
Please be sure to utilize the latest version NAEMT Education Software (http://www.naemt.org/software) to apply for and help administer your programs The software is intended to streamline administrative operations and database functions for both the Instructor/Coordinator and Head Office personnel, and should be utilized by all Instructor/Coordinators. If you are having any difficulty with the software or require assistance to install it, please contact Alan Kicks at emssol@naemt.org
Efforts to translate the 5th edition continue; the Italian and Dutch versions are now available, with Greek, Spanish and French translations underway.
If you have information or news that you would like to share, please feel free to send me your thoughts, photos, articles, ideas to phtls2maryann@telus.net
PHTLS Division News-March/April 2004 (posted March 14th, 2004)
Faculty from the Chicago Heights, Illinois, Fire Department conducted the first PHTLS Provider program for first responders at the Ford Motor Company's Chicago Heights Stamping PLant in January. The course was enthusiastically received, and pans are being made for the program to run at other Ford facilities around the world.
The Canadian military has initiated the process to train their faculty to offer PHTLS, with programs offered in Edmonton and Calgary, in January and March, respectively. These initial programs will bring PHTLS to medical companies and troops stationed overseas.
The Netherlands celebrated its 100th PHTLS program in January. The Dutch faculty demonstrates how hard work and teamwork can develop the necessary structures to ensure success of the program.
Finalized materials for the Trauma Transitional Instructor Program are now available for use by state and country coordinators. To access these materials, simply submit a course application as you normally would, and you'll receive the resource along with your certificates in the mail.
Also now available is the NAEMT Education Program software, which you can download at http://www.naemt.org/software. The software is free and will go far to streamline site course management and NAEMT information databases.
The PHTLS EC will be holding a Science Symposium on Trauma Care at EMS Today in Salt Lake City, Utah on March 3rd. Topics covered will include: airway, hemorrhage/resuscitation, spinal immobilization and EMS research. Peter Pons, MD, will open the symposium with a session on "Evaluating EMS Research" A general PHTLS faculty meeting is scheduled for March 4th.
First provider program to be held in Iraq (posted February 3rd, 2004)
Military Faculty offer first PHTLS Provider program in Iraq. Read the article(380kb .pdf file); Phototour.
PHTLS Division News-Jan/Feb 2004 (posted February 2nd, 2004)
2004 promises to be yet another banner year for PHTLS. Although figures are not yet confirmed, it is anticipated that final tallies will come in at around 2,400 courses completed and 20,000 students trained in 2003. (See chart below for program growth rate.)
Supportive of these programs, the 5th edition materials have surpassed all previous edition sales for the rollout year, selling 48.711 texts between August 2002 and September 2003.
The success of this program is driven and represented by all of you, from the provider who practices the philosophies of PHTLS to the educators who deliver the programs to those who coordinate and administer the program. Congratulations; you all do great work!
International faculties continue to play a large part in assisting with the dissemination of PHTLS around the world. Already planned for 2004 is a demonstration course in Finland, spearheaded by the Norwegian faculty. The first program to be run in Scotland will take place in February 2004 thanks to initiatives made by the UK faculty, who are also responsible for inroads made in Africa. Demonstration courses are also planned for Eastern Europe sometime in 2004. Work continues to fulfill the interests demonstrated from organizations in Germany, Austria, Spain, Luxembourg, Costa Rica, Paraguay, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Bahrain and India.
To support international programs, the provider text is being translated into many different languages. The Netherlands faculty has translated its text, as have the Italians. The Greek and Portuguese faculties are translating into their respective languages, with the Spanish, French and Hong Kong faculties still in discussions with Mosby for future endeavors to that end.
The various militaries from the associated countries also are doing great work disseminating and utilizing the program. Italy, the Netherlands and Argentina all utilize PHTLS within their militaries; as, of course, does the United States. Presently, US faculty stationed in Iraq is offering the first PHTLS programs to be run in-country. The Canadian military is also making plans to organize PHTLS programs for their troops to be stationed for duties overseas.
The PHTLS EC will be meeting to work on the 6th Edition text materials, as well as ongoing business. Mid-year meetings will be held in conjunction with a PHTLS Scientific Symposium at the EMS Today conference in March 2004 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Meetings also are planned for the NAEMT Annual Meeting and EMS EXPO, to be held October 19-23, 2004 in Atlanta, Georgia. Remember to contact the EC if you require representation or assistance with your local conference/symposiums.
Education Programme Software now available (posted January 21st, 2004)
Education Programme Software is now available at NAEMT's website for download. The programme is available to all PHTLS, AMLS & PPC Instructors and provides a powerful tool for course and information management.
The programme was developed by EMS Solutions Inc., for NAEMT.
PHTLS at Ford Motor Company (posted January 20th, 2004)
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Faculty from the Chicago Heights Fire Department conducted the first PHTLS course for First Responders at the Ford Motor Company's Chicago Heights Stamping Plant. The course was enthusiastically received by Ford's First responders who are no strangers to Trauma. Plans are for the course to be made available to First Responders at Ford facilities all over the world.
Captain Alan Shander, Training Officer for Chicago Heights FD is pictured lecturing.
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