Courses Description:

International Trauma Life Support (ITLS) is a global not-for-profit organization dedicated to preventing death and disability from trauma through education and emergency trauma care. Founded in 1985 as Basic Trauma Life Support, ITLS today has more than 80 chapters and training centers around the world. Through ITLS, professionals have learned proven techniques endorsed by the American College of Emergency Physicians.

ITLS trains and empowers you with the knowledge and skill to provide optimal care in the pre-hospital setting. It trains you in a realistic, hands-on approach which is proven to work in the field- from scene to surgery.

ITLS course combines classroom learning, hands-on skill stations, and assessment stations that put your learning to work in simulated trauma situations.

COURSE CONTENT:

1. Scene size up & Assessment Initial management
2. ITLS patient assessment
3. Thoracic Trauma
4. Shock evaluation & assessment
5. Trauma in Pregnancy
6. Trauma in Children
7. Trauma in the Elderly
8. Trauma Arrest
9. Skills stations – Spinal motion restriction including rapid extrication, helmet removal, log-roll, long/backboard/scoop stretcher utilization; Extremity immobilization and traction splint application

Who Can Do the Course?

1. Doctors-MBBS with any specialisation
2. Nurses- GNM/BSC/Post Bsc/MSC
3. Paramedics

The course is designed for the prehospital phase of EMS, it is also useful to Medical Students, Emergency Medicine Residents, Registered Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, and Physician Assistants interested in Trauma Care.