PHTLS has been adopted in more than 33 countries to date and continues to play an important and integral part in the global campaign that strives to enable the best possible care to those patients devastated by trauma. Each system that has adopted PHTLS has realized the benefits of the process and educational system with which it is taught. And too, each International system, unique in protocol and process has brought with it, wisdom and prospective to be shared by all.
The pages below are for the use of both the International Coordinators, Affiliates, Instructors and Providers that they represent. But also, these pages are here for you to peruse; to learn of what all of these individual EMS trauma systems have to offer all of us.
WHO Guidelines for Essential Trauma Care, Executive Summary: This page also holds options for a printable or a pdf version of this document (764kb) (posted Aug 30th, 2004)
WHO Traumatic Injury-2000, Press Release , "The Global Burden of Injury" & Appendices , The Injury Chartbook (posted May 20th, 2003) |