ITLS Advanced/Basic

Course Overview

Innovative skills stations let you practice the abilities appropriate for your level of certification.
With its comprehensive approach to core knowledge and skills, ITLS Provider is appropriate for all levels of EMS personnel—from EMT-Bs and first responders to advanced EMTs, paramedics, trauma nurses, and physicians.

Course length

16 hours

Course Content

The course manual is the 9th edition ITLS for Emergency Care Providers text.

Didactic

• Scene Size-up
• Trauma Assessment and Management
• Airway Management
• Thoracic Trauma
• Shock
• Head Trauma
• Spinal Trauma
• Abdominal Trauma
• Extremity Trauma
• Burns
• Pediatric Trauma
• Geriatric Trauma
• Trauma in Pregnancy
• The Impaired Patient
• Trauma Arrest
• Standard Precautions
  

Skills Stations

• Assessment skills
• Airway skills
• Thoracic trauma skills
• Vascular access skills
• Spine management skills
• Extremity trauma skills
  

Testing

• Written Exam
• Practical Exam