Pages: 464,
Specialty: Emergency Med,
Publisher: Elsevier,
Publication Year: 2003,
Cover: Paperback,
Dimensions: 211.8x276.4x20.6mm

"Prehospital Trauma Life Support" (PHTLS)revised reprint, is a unique, continuing education program that directly addresses trauma issues in the prehospital environment. Following the publication cycle of ATLS (Advanced Trauma Life Support) by the Committee on Trauma of the American College of Surgeons, the PHTLS program is designed to enhance and increase knowledge and skill in delivering trauma care. This revised fifth edition of the PHTLS textbook is the required book for the PHTLS course, and is also ideal for use as the trauma component of a paramedic course or as a general reference book on trauma assessment and management. It combines both basic and advanced trauma concepts and skills in one definitive resource and now features an entirely new chapter on evidence-based guidelines for military medicine, developed by the Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care. PLEASE NOTE: The Instructors Manual and Slide Set are available for certified PHTLS Instructors onl. They are ordered through Mosby but customers must first obtain an access code from the National PHTLS. Individuals may also call the above numbers for information on how to become a PHTLS instructor.show more