Alpha Care

ALPHA CARE TRAINING SERVICES LTD,

is now registered and the wheels are in motion to get our first training courses ready and available to you all by April 2010.

FIRST COURSE to be launched:

PHTLS course 7th & 8th April 2010

PHTLS - Prehospital Trauma Life Support is recognised around the world as the leading continuing education program for prehospital emergency trauma care. PHTLS promotes excellence in trauma patient management through global education of all providers involved in the delivery of prehospital care. PHTLS is developed by the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians in cooperation with the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma. PHTLS courses improve the quality of trauma care in your area and decrease mortality. The program is based on a prehospital trauma care philosophy, stressing the treatment of the multi-system trauma patiend as a unique entity with specific needs. This may require an approach to the trauma patient that varies from traditional treatment modalities.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) course is a continuing education program designed to give a focused review of the care and transport of multi-system trauma patients. The program presents advances in skills and techniques with new combinations and applications of knowledge and skills. PHTLS emphasizes patient assessment and judgement skills. PHTLS offers a shared experience that helps bridge the gap between pre-hospital emergency health care providers and the hospital staff. PHTLS reinforces the concept that emergency care is a team effort. PHTLS builds relationships that continue long after the course is over.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

The primary goals of the PHTLS are as follows:

1. To provide a description of the physiology, patho-physiology, and kinetics of injury.

2. To provide an understanding of the need for a rapid assessment of the trauma patient.

3. To advance the participants level of knowledge in regard to examination and diagnostic skills.

4. To advance the participants, level of compentence in regard to specific pre-hospital trauma intervention skills.

5. To provide an overview and establish a management method for the pre-hospital care of the multi-syustem trauma patient.

The PHTLS Provider Course is an intensive 2 day course.

COURSE CONTENT

Lectures

1. Course Purpose

2 Kinematics of Trauma

3. Patient Assessment

4. Airway Management & Ventilation

5. Thoracic Trauma

6. Shock & Fluid Replacement

7. Abdoninal Trauma/Trauma in Pregnancy.

8. Head Trauma

9. Spine Trauma

10. Extremity Trauma

11. Thermal Trauma

12. Essentials in Pre-hospital Trauma Care

13. Pediatric Trauma

14. Geriatric Trauma

SKILLS STATIONS

1. Baseline

2. Assessment I & II

3. Airway Management

4. Rapid Extrication

5. Spinal Immobilisation

6. Pediatric Assessment / Immobilization.

This course requires the participants to study the course materials and prepare for the course before they come as well as to actively participate during the course.

Criteria for successful completion of the PHTLS course includes:

1. Attend the entire course

2. Adhere to course content and demonstrate practical skills as outlined in the PHTLS textbook.

3. Achieve a minimum score of 75% on the written post-test; and

4. Successfully complete a final assessment station as team leader.

TARGET PARTICIPANTS

1. Personnel who are involved in pre-hospital trauma care and committed to pre-hospital trauma care education.

2. Clinical and nursing staff who are interested in pre-hospital trauma care and committed to pre-hospital trauma care education.

TRAINING FEES:

1) PHTLS course 7 th & 8th April 2010 = £325.00

2) ADVANCED TRAUMA Course 9th April 2010 (the first of its kind in the uk) £200.

If you book both courses you will get a discount of £50, the full price for both courses is £475.00

Please feel free to contact us to book places on the course, we can provide details

of accommodation if needed including costs.

To book onto this course and for further information please telephone 01491 652444.

FURTHER COURSES WILL BE LISTED ON ALPHA CARE TRAINING SERVICES LTD WEBSITE ONCE IT GOES LIVE, UNTIL THEN PLEASE TAKE A LOOK HERE FOR NOW.