EMS 2004 - International Trauma Life Support Provider

Credits: 1
Hours/Week: Lecture 0.5 Lab 0.5
Course Description: The ITLS Provider course covers the skills necessary for rapid assessment, resuscitation, stabilization, and transportation of trauma patients. This course emphasizes patient assessment and management evaluation steps and includes sequencing and techniques for resuscitation and packaging a patient. Hands-on stations include: basic and advanced airway, chest decompression and fluid resuscitation, spinal motion restriction-rapid extrication, helmet management, log roll and long back board, and traction splints.
MnTC Goals
None

Prerequisite(s): None
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: None

Major Content
1.  ESSENTIAL INFORMATION
    a.  Introduction to Traumatic Disease
    b. Trauma Assessment and Management
    c. Assessment Skills
    d. Hemorrhage Control and Shock
    e. Shock and Hemorrhage Control Skills
    f.  Airway Management
   g.  Airway Skills
  

2.  FOUNDATIONAL KNOWLEDGE
    a.  Thoracic Trauma
    b. Thoracic Trauma Skills
    c. Spinal Trauma and Spinal Motion Restriction
    d. Spine Management Skills
    e. Head Trauma and Traumatic Brain Injury
    f. Abdominal Trauma
   g. Extremity Trauma
   h. Extremity Trauma Skills
   i. Traumatic Arrest

3. SPECIAL POPULATIONS
   a. Burns
   b. Pediatric Trauma
   c. Geriatric Trauma
   d. Trauma in Pregnancy
   e. The Impaired Patient

4. Appendices
   a. Standard Precautions
   b. Analgesia and Pain Control for the Trauma Patient
   c. Multicasualty Incidents and Triage
Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course students will be able to:

1. describe the role of scene size-up in provider safety and anticipation of patient injuries.

2. outline the steps of the ITLS Trauma Assessment.

3. list the 10 critical interventions made during the primary survey and when to make them.

4. perform correctly the ITLS Primary Survey, the ITLS Reassessment Exam and the ITLS Secondary Survey

5. explain and compare the pathophysiology of hemorrhagic, mechanical (obstructive), cardiogenic, and distributive shock. 

6. discuss the use of tourniquets and hemostatic agents for uncontrolled extremity hemorrhage.

7. describe methods to deliver supplemental oxygen to the trauma patient.

8. perform airway management manuevers.

9. describe the signs and symptoms of thoracic trauma.

10. explain the cardiac involvement and management associated with blunt injury to the chest.

11. describe elements of injury, history, and assessment that may assist in determining which patients will benefit from spinal motion restriction.

12. list the goals and principles of spinal motion restriction (SMR).

13. explain when helmets should and should not be removed from injured patients.

14. describe the prehospital management of the patient with a traumatic brain injury.

15. identify potential problems in the management of the patient with a traumatic brain injury.

16. differentiate between blunt and penetrating injuries and identify characteristic complications associated with each.

17. describe the findings indicating possible intra-abdominal injuries based on history, physical examination, and mechanism of injury.

18. prioritize extremity trauma in the assessment and management of life-threatening injuries.

19. describe the proper evaluation and management of the patient in traumatic cardiopulmonary arrest.

20. estimate extent of burn using the rule of nines.

21. Identify which patients may require transport to a burn center.

22. predict the most likely pediatric injuries based on common mechanisms of injury.

23. describe how the assessment and management of the geriatric trauma patient are impacted by the aging process.

24. describe the initial assessment and management of the pregnant trauma patient.

25. list the special considerations for assessment and management of patients in whom substance abuse is suspected.

26. identify those situations in which a higher level of personal protective equipment is needed, beyond the basic equipment used in daily patient care.

27. discuss indications, contraindications, and possible complications for use of analgesics in the trauma patient.

28. classify patients based on priority need for treatment.

 
Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MnTC): Goals and Competencies None
Competency Goals (MnTC Goals 1-6)
None
Theme Goals (MnTC Goals 7-10)
None

Practicum hours per week: 0

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