Class Enrollment

PHTLS
Date/Time:	Mon 3/2/2026 at 8:00 AM This class continues on: Tue 3/3/2026 at 8:00 AM
Location:	IMA Vista - 2323 S. Vista Ave., Ste. 202-B
Class Price:	$350.00
Notes:	2 day PHTLS course - 8a-5p each day

Prehospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS)

NAEMT's 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 and 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

PHTLS is appropriate for EMTs, paramedics, nurses, physician assistants, physicians, and other prehospital providers

Time:  2 - 7 hour days (total 14 hour course) 

Certification Period:  4 years

Course Format:: Classroom Lecture, Small Group Learning Stations, Practical Testing Scenarios and Written Exam.  

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Beginning May 17^th, 2021 Idaho Medical Academy will allow instructors, staff and students who are fully vaccinated to no longer wear a face mask or face shield.  You may learn more about our new guidelines here.

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